Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
The use of a mixture of microorganisms to cover food waste to decrease smell, based on an old Japanese farming practice.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: agriculture, business, horticulture, lifestyle
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noun
A technique in Japanese woodblock printing that achieves a variation in lightness and darkness of a single colour by means of ink applied by hand in gradations, rather than uniformly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: media, printing, publishing
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noun
The use of fogging or blurring to censor parts of an image, for example in Japanese pornography.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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History
Borrowed from Japanese ぼかし.
