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無駄骨徒骨 [rK] ムダ骨 [sK] むだ骨 [sK]
むだぼね
1. [n]
▶ wasted effort
▶ fruitless effort
▶ vain efforts
Cross references:
  ⇐ see: 1673510 無駄骨折り【むだぼねおり】 1. laboring in vain; wasted effort; vain efforts



History:
4. A 2023-03-21 01:51:17  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
3. A* 2023-03-21 00:00:02  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
gg5, prog
  Comments:
Dropping adjective glosses.
I think ムダ骨 should be sK. It's not especially common.
  Diff:
@@ -8 +8,2 @@
-<keb>ムダ骨</keb>
+<keb>徒骨</keb>
+<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>
@@ -11,2 +12,2 @@
-<keb>徒骨</keb>
-<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>
+<keb>ムダ骨</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
@@ -23,3 +24,2 @@
-<gloss>useless</gloss>
-<gloss>waste of time and effort</gloss>
-<gloss>pointless</gloss>
+<gloss>wasted effort</gloss>
+<gloss>fruitless effort</gloss>
2. A 2023-03-19 02:23:11  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
1. A* 2023-03-19 01:56:55  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーー─┬───────┬───────╮
│ 無駄骨  │ 9,447 │ 87.9% │
│ ムダ骨  │   726 │  6.8% │ - add
│ むだ骨  │   448 │  4.2% │ - sK
│ 徒骨   │     0 │  0.0% │ - add, rK (daijr/s, koj, meikyo)
│ むだぼね │   132 │  1.2% │
╰─ーーーー─┴───────┴───────╯
  Diff:
@@ -7,0 +8,7 @@
+<keb>ムダ骨</keb>
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>徒骨</keb>
+<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
@@ -8,0 +16 @@
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>

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