understanding, comprehension / appreciation

(slang) to be funny upon retrospection

Alternative spelling of 気付く to become aware; to be revived, to come back to one's senses

to become aware, to notice / to be revived, to come back to one's senses

joke

understand, comprehend / appreciate

straight, not bent

直ぐ: immediately, right away, soon / 直ぐ: quick to / 直ぐ: right next to, right close by

(obsolete) 過ぐ: classical form of modern 過ぎる (sugiru, “to go through, to go past; to exceed”)

(obsolete) 挿ぐ: classical form of modern 挿げる (sugeru, “to connect or affix one thing to another, especially by passing something through something else”)