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an elder / a scholar / a teacher or a professor / sensei (Japanese martial arts teacher) / sir, a polite form of address to teachers, doctors, etc.

a title used after the name of teachers, doctors, lawyers, or certain other professionals

(dialect, Hakata) teacher, professor

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”)

直ぐに: immediately

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