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jmdict 1612660 Active (id: 2202595)
有耶無耶
うやむや [ichi1]
1. [adj-na,n] [uk,yoji]
▶ indefinite
▶ hazy
▶ vague
▶ unsettled
▶ undecided



History:
5. A 2022-08-10 08:09:09  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
Adding yoji tags based on gakken, shinmeikai and-or jitenon
-*- via bulkupd.py -*-
  Diff:
@@ -14,0 +15 @@
+<misc>&yoji;</misc>
4. A 2021-12-01 01:20:37  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
有耶無耶	21224
うやむや	130972
有耶無耶な	1162
うやむやな	6744
  Comments:
Wouldn't call a eord that's mainly.in hiragana 
a yoji
  Diff:
@@ -6 +5,0 @@
-<ke_pri>ichi1</ke_pri>
@@ -16 +14,0 @@
-<misc>&yoji;</misc>
3. A 2014-08-25 01:13:10  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
Kanji Haitani list
  Comments:
Adding yoji tagAdding yoji tag
-*- via bulkupd.py -*-
  Diff:
@@ -15,0 +16 @@
+<misc>&yoji;</misc>
2. A 2011-09-28 05:49:46  Rene Malenfant <...address hidden...>
1. A* 2011-09-28 03:35:43  Paul Upchurch
  Refs:
daijr daijs
http://eow.alc.co.jp/うやむや/UTF-8/?ref=sa
http://dic.yahoo.co.jp/dsearch?enc=UTF-8&p=うやむや&dtype=3&dname=2na&stype=0&pagenum=1&index=00390900
  Comments:
I'm not sure if the use of this for "hushed up/swept under the rug/smoothed over" should just go under meaning 1 or not. It's clearly coming from that definition, but it isn't an obvious enough jump for me to have figured out that it's used that way when I saw it in a novel.
  Diff:
@@ -19,0 +19,2 @@
+<gloss>unsettled</gloss>
+<gloss>undecided</gloss>

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