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. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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