食い下がる

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 2

Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 食い (連用形(れんようけい) (ren'yōkei) of the verb () ()) + 下がる

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) いさが [kùíságáꜜrù] (Nakadaka – [4])[1]
  • (Tokyo) いさがる [kùíságárú] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [kɯ̟ᵝisa̠ɡa̠ɾɯ̟ᵝ]

Verb

()()がる (kuisagaru) godan (stem ()()がり (kuisagari), past ()()がった (kuisagatta))

  1. to hang on to; to hang from; to cling to
    Synonym: しがみつく
  2. to hound; to keep after (someone); to refuse to back down; to persist; to tenaciously face (someone); to doggedly oppose
  3. (sumo) to grab the front of the opponent's mawashi, place one's head against their chest, and lower one's hips

Conjugation

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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