hoarse voice / voice with an accent / voice with an unappealing thick, rumbling quality

The hiragana syllable みぇ (mye). Its equivalent in katakana is ミェ (mye).

to sleep slothfully / (by extension) to idle away one's time

(dialect, Kagoshima) short, brief

(reverent) land of the emperor; Japan

Eye dialect spelling of まい (-mai), representing Nagoya Japanese.

(mnemonic, acronym, physics) Used for remembering the relationship between distance (道のり (michinori)), speed (速さ (hayasa)), and time (時間 (jikan)).

four months (duration)

Synonym of 四季 (shiki, “four seasons”) / four (o'clock)

(grammar) Short for 四段活用 (yodan katsuyō): quadrigrade conjugation