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  2. Glossary of Japanese words of Portuguese origin - Wikipedia

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    Originally a term from playing cards, in reference to certain cards that earned the player zero points. This meaning extended to refer to "a boring, shabby, low person", and from there to mean "an unattractive woman". tabako: タバコ / 煙草 / たばこ tobacco, cigarette tobaco tabaco tobacco, cigarette totan: ja:トタン

  3. Boring (earth) - Wikipedia

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    Boring is drilling a hole, tunnel, or well in the Earth. It is used for various applications in geology, agriculture, hydrology, civil engineering, and mineral exploration. Today, most Earth drilling serves one of the following purposes: return samples of the soil and/or rock through which the drill passes; access rocks from which material can ...

  4. Boring - Wikipedia

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    Boring (earth), drilling a hole, tunnel, or well in the earth Tunnel boring machine, a machine used in boring tunnels; Boring (manufacturing), enlarging a hole that has already been drilled; Drilling, a cutting process that uses a drill bit to cut a hole of circular cross-section; Boring, a mechanism of bioerosion

  5. Urusei Yatsura - Wikipedia

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    For example, the Oni choose tag to decide their contest with Earth because the Japanese word for Tag, Onigokko, means "game of the Oni". When Ataru grabs Lum's horns during their contest and she misunderstands his statement that he can get married, it is a reference to the myth that grabbing the horns of an Oni will make your dream come true.

  6. Shimoneta - Wikipedia

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    Shimoneta: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist (下ネタという概念が存在しない退屈な世界, Shimoneta to Iu Gainen ga Sonzai Shinai Taikutsu na Sekai), officially abbreviated as Shimoseka (下セカ) in Japan, is a Japanese light novel series written by Hirotaka Akagi and illustrated by Eito Shimotsuki.

  7. Phelotrupes auratus - Wikipedia

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    Phelotrupes auratus is a species of beetle known by the common names Japanese earth-boring dung beetle and golden dung beetle. [1] [2] Description

  8. Yomi - Wikipedia

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    With regard to Japanese mythology, Yomi is generally taken by commentators to lie beneath the earth and is part of a triad of locations discussed in Kojiki: Takamahara (高天原, also: Takamagahara, lit. "high heavenly plane", located in the sky), Ashihara-no-Nakatsukuni (葦原の中つ国, lit. "central land of reed plane") located on earth ...

  9. List of Japanese map symbols - Wikipedia

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    Children's list from the GSI (in Japanese) (Translate to English: Google, Bing, Yandex) This is a very good reference, it has separate links for each symbol. Map Symbols (2002) from the GSI (in Japanese) (Translate to English: Google, Bing, Yandex) Map symbols from the Its-mo online map (in Japanese) (Translate to English: Google, Bing, Yandex