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jmdict 1771300 Active (id: 2213553)
虫けら虫ケラ虫螻 [rK]
むしけらムシケラ [sk]
1. [n]
▶ worm
▶ insect
2. [n] [derog]
▶ insignificant person
▶ pathetic person



History:
5. A 2022-11-12 23:30:36  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
ムシケラ isn't especially common.
  Diff:
@@ -19 +19 @@
-<re_nokanji/>
+<re_inf>&sk;</re_inf>
4. A 2022-11-11 22:34:04  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
3. A* 2022-11-11 08:12:14  Opencooper
  Refs:
G n-grams:

虫けら  48,492 68.8%
虫ケラ  15,211 21.6% <- adding
虫螻    1,090  1.5%
むしけら  3,505  5.0%
むしケラ     25  0.0%
ムシケラ  2,185  3.1% <- adding
  Diff:
@@ -5,0 +6,3 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>虫ケラ</keb>
@@ -12,0 +16,4 @@
+</r_ele>
+<r_ele>
+<reb>ムシケラ</reb>
+<re_nokanji/>
2. A 2022-05-12 06:00:49  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
1. A* 2022-05-11 19:17:04  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
GG5
Google N-gram Corpus Counts
 1,090	  2.2%	虫螻
48,492	 97.8%	虫けら
 3,505	  n/a 	むしけら
  Diff:
@@ -5 +5 @@
-<keb>虫螻</keb>
+<keb>虫けら</keb>
@@ -8 +8,2 @@
-<keb>虫けら</keb>
+<keb>虫螻</keb>
+<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>
@@ -17,0 +19,6 @@
+<sense>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<misc>&derog;</misc>
+<gloss>insignificant person</gloss>
+<gloss>pathetic person</gloss>
+</sense>

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