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啖う

くう

Common

Variants

  • 啖うくう
  • 喰うくう
  • 食うくう

Meanings

  1. to consume time and-or resources
  2. to eat
  3. to have sexual relations with a woman, esp. for the first time
  4. to receive something (usu. an unfavourable event)
  5. to bite; to sting (as insects do)
  6. to defeat a superior; to threaten a position
  7. to encroach on; to eat into; to consume
  8. to live; to make a living; to survive
  9. to tease; to torment; to taunt; to make light of; to make fun of

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