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| 1. |
[n]
▶ falling on one's backside ▶ pratfall
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| 2. |
[n]
▶ mochi used to celebrate a child's first birthday ▶ mochi tied to a baby's back if he starts walking before his first birthday in order to cause him to fall on his backside |
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| 5. | A 2022-05-14 11:13:55 Robin Scott <...address hidden...> | |
| Diff: | @@ -20 +20 @@ -<gloss>falling on one's backside (behind, bottom)</gloss> +<gloss>falling on one's backside</gloss> |
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| 4. | A 2022-05-14 01:22:05 Jim Breen <...address hidden...> | |
| 3. | A* 2022-05-13 17:05:23 Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...> | |
| Refs: | Google N-gram Corpus Counts
44,667 52.0% 尻餅
14,570 17.0% 尻もち
50 0.1% 尻餠 <- only seems to be in nikk
26,552 30.9% しりもち |
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| Diff: | @@ -11,0 +12 @@ +<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf> |
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| 2. | A 2016-01-02 21:04:56 Jim Breen <...address hidden...> | |
| Refs: | GG5, G n-grams |
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| Diff: | @@ -5 +5 @@ -<keb>尻餠</keb> +<keb>尻餅</keb> @@ -8 +8,4 @@ -<keb>尻餅</keb> +<keb>尻もち</keb> +</k_ele> +<k_ele> +<keb>尻餠</keb> @@ -16,0 +20 @@ +<gloss>pratfall</gloss> |
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| 1. | A* 2016-01-01 23:41:51 Scott | |
| Refs: | daijs wiki (http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/尻餅) |
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| Comments: | That's how I understand it. It would be a bad omen if the baby started walking too early. Google images also returns this, but not in dictionary: http://news.mynavi.jp/articles/2014/03/23/shirimochi/ |
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| Diff: | @@ -17,0 +18,5 @@ +<sense> +<pos>&n;</pos> +<gloss>mochi used to celebrate a child's first birthday</gloss> +<gloss>mochi tied to a baby's back if he starts walking before his first birthday in order to cause him to fall on his backside</gloss> +</sense> |
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