郎

Archaic

slow witted fellow; counter-hero; liar

Archaic

lie; nonsense

Yotaro (rakugo character)

Word usually written using kana alone

diving beetle

Japanese predacious diving beetle (Cybister japonicus)

golden lace (Patrinia scabiosifolia); scabious patrinia; yellow patrinia

Colloquial

unemployed person; vagabond; floater; vagrant

風太郎 only

day labourer (esp. on the docks)

Trademark

Kintarō candy; Kintarō-ame; hard stick-shaped candy made so that the face of folk hero Kintarō appears when it is sliced

something (or someone) lacking originality; something lacking in variety; cookie-cutter design (look, approach, etc.)

followers; adherents

adventure lover

buying the services of a prostitute; whoring

balancing toy

Colloquial; しろうと inverted

amateur; novice; layman

Proverb

it's good to have a girl first and then a boy

Colloquial; Recent usage

one girl and two boys are ideal

watchman

Derogatory

bitch

mudskipper (Boleophthalmus pectinirostris); goggle-eyed goby

Derogatory

stupid brat; mischievous kid; troublemaker

snow woman

Noh

Tarōkaja (common name for a manservant)

throwing one's weight around without knowing one's limitations; Yelang thinks too highly of itself

libertine; man of pleasure

kappa (mythical water-dwelling creature)

Rip van Winkle feeling; feeling that everything has changed once one comes back to one's hometown

Colloquial

hellgrammite (larva of dobsonfly species Protohermes grandis)

kappa (mythical water-dwelling creature)

河伯 only

river god

Japanese crucian carp (Carassius cuvieri); white crucian carp