children's medicine for nervousness
Traditional term for a mild medicine given to children to calm irritability or nervousness, often associated with the idea of 'quieting the worms' believed to cause fussiness.
I hear that in the old days, they used to give children's calming medicine to babies who cried at night.
snack for an empty stomach
A light snack taken to stave off hunger pangs, similar to 虫養い. The term is old-fashioned and rarely used in modern conversation.
See also: 虫養い
I was a bit hungry, so I ate some rice crackers as a snack to tide me over.
Standard kanji spelling.
Search-only variant with simplified 押え.
Formed from 虫, an imagined internal agent traditionally associated with hunger, irritability, or childhood ailments, and 押さえ, “suppression” or “appeasement.”