to use / to employ / to make use of, to apply / to spend

a pencil (graphite writing-instrument)

(dialect, Ibaraki) a pencil (graphite writing-instrument)

(colloquial) something small / (colloquial) short person, runt / (colloquial) (an annoying) kid, squirt, pipsqueak

indicates that something undesirable was done or happened

to close / to finish, do something completely / to put away, to put an end to / is, or was (with conjugation), done completely / happens, or happened, unexpectedly / is done with difficulty

traditional folk song of Amami / (more broadly) traditional folk song of Okinawa

To do something completely (unintentionally); cannot help doing

used in response to a failure or mistake: dang, shoot, darn it

sister city