狗

Meaning

狗 centers on a young or small dog: a puppy, or a dog in a general sense. The two meanings are closely related, with 'puppy' being the more specific application.

• 天狗てんぐ

  tengu; red-faced and long-nosed goblin said to reside deep in the mountains

• 走狗そうく

  hound; hunting dog; running dog; dupe; tool of another person; cat's-paw

• 烏天狗からすてんぐ

  small, crow-billed tengu

• 狗母魚えそ

  lizardfish (any fish of family Synodontidae)

• 一人天狗ひとりてんぐ

  self-conceited person; ego-tripper; swelled head

• 八天狗はってんぐ

  hattengu; tengu said to live among the 8 mountains of Atago, Hira, Daisen, Ōmine, Kurama, Iizuna, Hiko, and Shiramine

• 卵天狗茸たまごてんぐたけ

  death cap (Amanita phalloides); death cup

• 喪家の狗そうかのいぬ

  feeling lost like a stray dog

• 増長天狗ぞうちょうてんぐ

  braggart; boaster; self-conceited person

• 大天狗だいてんぐ

  large tengu; powerful tengu

• 大石天狗堂おおいしてんぐどう

  Oishi Tengudo (karuta maker); Ohishi Tengudo

• 天狗になるてんぐになる

  to get conceited; to become vain; to get stuck up; to get a swollen head; to become a tengu

• 天狗フルーツ蝙蝠てんぐフルーツこうもり

  tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimeninae spp., esp. the common tube-nosed fruit bat, Nyctimene albiventer)

• 天狗俳諧てんぐはいかい

  parlour game in which three people each write one line of a 5-7-5 poem (without seeing the other lines; often producing humorous results); tengu haiku

• 天狗倒してんぐだおし

  large sound of unknown source heard on a forested mountain

• 天狗物てんぐもの

  category of noh plays who depict a tengu as the leading character; goblin piece

• 天狗猿てんぐざる

  proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus); long-nosed monkey

• 天狗礫てんぐつぶて

  rock flying out of nowhere (while in the mountains)

• 天狗茸てんぐたけ

  panther cap (species of poisonous mushroom, Amanita pantherina)

• 天狗蝙蝠てんぐこうもり

  Hilgendorf's tube-nosed bat (Murina hilgendorfi)

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