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きな臭い；キナ臭い
【きなくさい】

1.	[adj-i] ▶ smelling burnt ▶ smelling scorched ▶ having a burnt smell
2.	[adj-i] ▶ smelling of gunpowder (i.e. as if armed conflict is about to break out) ▶ tense ▶ strained
3.	[adj-i] ▶ suspicious ▶ dubious ▶ questionable ▶ shady

Conjugations

History:

6.	A 2023-02-08 14:50:20 Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
5.	A* 2023-02-08 03:45:49 Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	Google N-gram Corpus Counts ╭─ーーーーー─┬────────┬───────╮ │ きな臭い　 │ 40,522 │ 73.8% │ │ キナ臭い　 │ 10,941 │ 19.9% │ - adding │ きなくさい │ 3,482 │ 6.3% │ ├─ーーーーー─┼────────┼───────┤ │ きな臭く　 │ 10,080 │ 77.7% │ │ キナ臭く　 │ 2,516 │ 19.4% │ │ きなくさく │ 376 │ 2.9% │ ╰─ーーーーー─┴────────┴───────╯
	Diff:	@@ -5,0 +6,3 @@ +</k_ele> +<k_ele> +<keb>キナ臭い</keb>
4.	A 2019-11-11 00:54:41 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
3.	A* 2019-11-10 23:04:21 Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	daij, gg5
	Comments:	I think this works for sense 2. 焦臭い is こげくさい.
	Diff:	@@ -6,3 +5,0 @@ -</k_ele> -<k_ele> -<keb>焦臭い</keb> @@ -16,0 +14 @@ +<gloss>having a burnt smell</gloss> @@ -20,2 +18,3 @@ -<gloss>smelling of gunpowder (i.e. as if military action seems about to happen)</gloss> -<gloss>war is looming</gloss> +<gloss>smelling of gunpowder (i.e. as if armed conflict is about to break out)</gloss> +<gloss>tense</gloss> +<gloss>strained</gloss> @@ -27,0 +27 @@ +<gloss>shady</gloss>
2.	A 2018-01-14 05:29:59 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	G n-grams: 焦臭い 2006 きな臭い 40522
	Diff:	@@ -5 +5 @@ -<keb>焦臭い</keb> +<keb>きな臭い</keb> @@ -8 +8 @@ -<keb>きな臭い</keb> +<keb>焦臭い</keb>
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1.	A* 2018-01-13 23:33:43 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	daij, chujiten
	Comments:	sense 2 can still be phrased a lot better but I think this is at least an improvement over the original gloss. Hard to gloss as an adjective. "looming (of war)" seems wrong because you wouldn't say 戦争はきな臭い
	Diff:	@@ -15 +15,2 @@ -<gloss>burning or scorched smell</gloss> +<gloss>smelling burnt</gloss> +<gloss>smelling scorched</gloss> @@ -19 +20,2 @@ -<gloss>imminent military action</gloss> +<gloss>smelling of gunpowder (i.e. as if military action seems about to happen)</gloss> +<gloss>war is looming</gloss> @@ -23,0 +26,2 @@ +<gloss>dubious</gloss> +<gloss>questionable</gloss>

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