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to make a mess of it; to make a hash of it; to fail and lose face; to embarrass oneself

Orig. meaning

to spread miso (e.g. on konnyaku)

artificial sweetener

miso soup

uninteresting

Linguistics

semantic content (of a term); meaning (of a sentence)

being rather confused; looking somewhat dismayed (perturbed)

having no sense of taste

Noun or verb acting prenominally

yellowish; cream-coloured; cream-colored

Proverb

in fooling the enemy first deceive your allies

Food, cooking

fried dish seasoned with miso

Food, cooking

seasoned nori

being apt to make a show of one's faults; penchant for boasting of one's faults; pretending to be worse than one really is

whole party to a plot; whole gang; fellow conspirators

taste for the exotic; infatuation with a foreign way of life; exoticism

brown meat (crab); miso-like paste found inside a crab's (and arthropods in general) intestinal area

Food, cooking

miso mixed with crab innards or scraps

Food, cooking

mixed miso (e.g. white and red)

Food, cooking

hatcho miso; dark miso variety produced in Aichi Prefecture

Food, cooking

miso-based sauce; miso sauce

in a gloating manner

overheated; hyper-; overearnest

cayenne pepper powder

logical paragraph (as opposed to a formal paragraph); segment of text expressing a single meaning

samisen player

Food, cooking

grilled miso