love (in both senses of loving a friend or family member and a partner romantically) / very (most) favorite

齦, 歯茎: the flesh round the teeth; gum

剥ぐ: tear off, peel off, skin, disrobe / 接ぐ: join together, such as wood and cloth

ハグ: hug

接, 接ぎ: joining, patching together / 萩: Japanese bush clover (Kummerowia striata) / 脛: the lower leg, the shin / 榛木: a hazelnut tree

羽子板: a hagoita: rectangle wooden paddle used to play hanetsuki (traditional Japanese battledore, similar to badminton); often painted with a colorful image and used as an ornament in modern Japan

botamochi (sweet)

(textiles) leftover scrap fabric

(chiefly women's speech) first person singular pronoun: I, me

the shin