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barking over nothing (of a dog); barking at passers-by or visitors

wearing wooden clogs

Colloquial

floatplane

ne'er-do-well; waster; idler; good-for-nothing

Idiomatic expression

to inflate (figures); to jack up (e.g. a score); to pad

geta with high supports; tall clogs

Azuma geta; type of geta for women with a tatami mat insole

large cloth sack

Historical term

baggy trousers (worn in the late-Edo and early-Meiji periods by samurai while practising)

laboring in vain; wasted effort; vain efforts

horse load

chatter; idle talk

lacquered geta

toe guards on clogs; footwear doorman

eating between meals; wasteful eating habits; waste of resources

living idly; loafing one's way through life

blossom which fails to produce fruit; non-fruit-bearing flower

Computing

dead time

rough geta (e.g. made of Japanese cedar)

crestfish (Lophotus capellei); unicornfish

Idiomatic expression; Derogatory; Usu. in ref. to the smaller party in a coalition government

hanger-on; lackey; sycophant; snow stuck under a geta sandal

wearing wooden clogs

repairing clogs; clog repairer

residential building in which the first floor is occupied by businesses

geta with skating blades; skates made from geta

Idiomatic expression

things that look similar but are completely different; geta and grilled miso

low geta made of willow