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1. |
[n]
▶ candy fashioned in human and animal forms |
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2. |
[n]
▶ deceptive appearance ▶ all show ▶ empty suit ▶ paper tiger |
2. | A 2023-05-30 03:46:42 Jim Breen <...address hidden...> | |
1. | A* 2023-05-30 03:07:42 Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...> | |
Refs: | There's a second, figurative sense in daijr, obunsha, and jitenon. daijr: 立派そうに見えても実質のないもの。似て非なるもの。 obunsha: 見かけはりっぱでも、実質の伴わないもの。 jitenon: 見かけだけは立派で、内容が伴っていないもの。見掛け倒し。 Google N-gram Corpus Counts ╭─ーーーーー─┬────────┬───────╮ │ 飴細工 │ 24,554 │ 74.6% │ │ あめ細工 │ 4,867 │ 14.8% │ - add │ アメ細工 │ 3,451 │ 10.5% │ - add, sK │ あめざいく │ 48 │ 0.1% │ ╰─ーーーーー─┴────────┴───────╯ |
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Diff: | @@ -5,0 +6,7 @@ +</k_ele> +<k_ele> +<keb>あめ細工</keb> +</k_ele> +<k_ele> +<keb>アメ細工</keb> +<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf> @@ -13,0 +21,7 @@ +<sense> +<pos>&n;</pos> +<gloss>deceptive appearance</gloss> +<gloss>all show</gloss> +<gloss>empty suit</gloss> +<gloss>paper tiger</gloss> +</sense> |