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泥
どろ
Common word
N3
Nouns
mud; wet dirt · thief · Android (OS)
泥棒
どろぼう
Common word
N4
Nouns
thief; burglar; robber · theft; burglary; robbery · steal; commit theft
泥酔
でいすい
Common word
Nouns
dead drunk; drunken stupor
どろどろ
Common word
N1
Other
viscous; thick; mushy; sticky · muddy; dirty; covered in grime · murky; sordid; tangled (emotions/relations)
泥沼
どろぬま
Common word
Nouns
bog; marsh; swamp · quagmire; morass; dire situation
汚泥
おでい
Nouns
sludge; slime; mire · hopeless situation; hell; despair
泥臭い
どろくさい
い-adjectives
smelling of mud; earthy smell · unrefined; crude; rough around the edges
泥水
どろみず
Nouns
muddy water · red-light district
ドジョウ
どじょう
Nouns
loach (any fish of family Cobitidae) · weather loach; pond loach (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus)
雲泥の差
うんでいのさ
Common word
Expressions
a world of difference; wide difference
ぬかるみ
Nouns
muddy place; mud; mire
泥まみれ
どろまみれ
Other
muddy; covered with mud; mud-caked
泥炭
でいたん
Common word
Nouns
peat
泥濘
でいねい
Nouns
mud; mire
泥んこ
どろんこ
Nouns
mud · muddy; covered in mud
拘泥
こうでい
Nouns
adhere to; stick to; be particular about; worry too much about
泥仕合
どろじあい
Nouns
mudslinging contest; mudslinging match
乱泥流
らんでいりゅう
Nouns
turbidity current
人を見たら泥棒と思え
ひとをみたらどろぼうとおもえ
Expressions
don't trust strangers; always assume the worst of people
ホトケドジョウ
ほとけどじょう
Nouns
Japanese eight-barbel loach
半鐘泥棒
はんしょうどろぼう
Nouns
very tall person
印泥
いんでい
Nouns
red ink paste (for seals)
タイワンドジョウ
たいわんどじょう
Nouns
blotched snakehead (Channa maculata)
アジメドジョウ
あじめどじょう
Nouns
Niwaella delicata (species of loach)
嘘つきは泥棒の始まり
うそつきはどろぼうのはじまり
Expressions
lying is the first step to stealing; show me a liar, and I will show you a thief
墓泥棒
はかどろぼう
Nouns
grave robber; grave robbing
大泥棒
おおどろぼう
Nouns
master thief; notorious robber
天地雲泥
てんちうんでい
Nouns
extreme difference; worlds apart
宝石泥棒
ほうせきどろぼう
Nouns
jewel thief
封泥
ふうでい
Nouns
lute
採泥器
さいでいき
Nouns
seabed sampler; bottom sampler
放散虫軟泥
ほうさんちゅうなんでい
Nouns
radiolarian ooze
ホシミドロ
ほしみどろ
Nouns
zygnema; freshwater filamentous green algae (genus Zygnema)
春泥
しゅんでい
Nouns
spring sludge; spring mud; muddy slush
月給泥棒
げっきゅうどろぼう
Nouns
freeloader; slacker; someone who doesn't earn their pay
朱泥
しゅでい
Nouns
unglazed reddish brown pottery (originally from China)
柳の下にいつも泥鰌はいない
やなぎのしたにいつもどじょうはいない
Expressions
good luck does not always repeat itself; a fox is not taken twice in the same snare
柳の下にいつも泥鰌はおらぬ
やなぎのしたにいつもどじょうはおらぬ
Expressions
a fox is not taken twice in the same snare; there are no birds in last year's nest; lightning never strikes twice in the same place
沈泥
ちんでい
Nouns
silt; sedimentary mud
こそ泥
こそどろ
Nouns
sneak thief; petty thief; cat burglar
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