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castigage

2022年12月22日
might be mainly British?

castigate
verb [ T ] formal

to criticize someone or something severely:


basically "chastise"

PR

bias 〔推し〕

2022年12月01日
いま推されているアーティスト・アニメキャラは?


He is my bias in 〔band〕.

I love her, she is my ultimate bias.



used in English-language K-POP fan communit

panacea

2021年12月15日
panacea
noun [ C usually singular ]
UK /ˌpæn.əˈsiː.ə/ US /ˌpæn.əˈsiː.ə/

something that will solve all problems:
Technology is not a panacea for all our problems.




Still, the Crown Act hasn’t been a panacea.

ken

2021年09月19日
"What I really saw in the figure of Mona Lisa was the estranging image of woman beyond the reach of my sympathy or the ken of my interest…"




Reminds me of "yen", a "yen for ___".


Definition of ken

 (Entry 1 of 2)


1 : the range of perception, understanding, or knowledge abstract words that are beyond the ken of young children— Lois M. Rettie
2a : the range of vision
b : sight, view 'tis double death to drown in ken of shore— William Shakespeare

flyspeck

2021年08月04日


"I'm not going to flyspeck this. I am sure there were some embraces that were totally innocent,"



... 動詞ではない。


flyspeck noun
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fly·​speck | \ ˈflī-ˌspek \
Definition of flyspeck
1: a speck made by fly excrement
2: something small and insignificant