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肉を付ける (にくをつける) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
Meanings 1
expression, ichidan verb
add meat ; add weight ; add substance
Literally 'to attach meat', used both for adding actual meat to a dish and figuratively for adding substance, detail, or weight to something like an essay or argument.
いけ
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This report is still thin, so I need to add more substance to it.
Written forms 肉にく を 付つ ける
Standard kanji spelling for the expression.
にくを 付つ ける
Kana spelling is common in everyday writing, especially when the literal meat sense is not intended.
Kanji 付 adhere, attach, refer to Etymology Compound of 肉 (niku, 'meat') + を (o, object marker) + 付ける (tsukeru, 'to attach'). The figurative sense derives from the idea of adding flesh to a skeleton.
