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腰
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Definitions
- 1. waist
- 2. lower back
- 3. pocket
- 4. middle
- 5. loins
Example Sentences
1 shown腰 果
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 腰
hips
slender and supple waist
intervertebral disk
back of a tiger and waist of a bear
(fig.) purse
girdle
lumbar vertebrae
waist of trousers
waist
(coll.) to pace around nervously
(bird species of China) white-rumped sandpiper (Calidris fuscicollis)
to back sb up
slender waistline
(coll.) tiny waist
(bird species of China) lemon-rumped warbler (Phylloscopus chloronotus)
slipped disk
harness pad (on draft animal)
to nod one's head and bow (idiom); bowing and scraping
(bird species of China) red-rumped swallow (Cecropis daurica)
waist and back
(bird species of China) green sandpiper (Tringa ochropus)
lit. ten thousand strings of cash in money belt (idiom); carrying lots of money
to bend
to put one's hands on one's hips
lower back
to bend over
slouch
(bird species of China) Eurasian curlew (Numenius arquata)
(bird species of China) white-rumped shama (Copsychus malabaricus)
a stretch (of one's body)
waistband
cashew nuts
(bird species of China) common redpoll (Acanthis flammea)
to straighten one's back
(bird species of China) white-rumped munia (Lonchura striata)
(bird species of China) house swift (Apus nipalensis)
(bird species of China) yellow-rumped honeyguide (Indicator xanthonotus)
herniated lumbar disk
to stretch oneself (on waking or when tired etc)
middle
to sway one's hips
chicken with cashew nuts
kidney
lit. a hair plucked from (person A) would be thicker than (person B)'s waist (idiom)
wide belt
(bird species of China) red-mantled rosefinch (Carpodacus rhodochlamys)
middle
(a person's) back (usu. as sth one keeps straight)
(bird species of China) Leach's storm petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa)
to dip into one's pocket
waist
it's all very well to talk, but getting things done is another matter (idiom)
(bird species of China) Baird's sandpiper (Calidris bairdii)
(dialect) to bend over
waist of a bear and back of a tiger
(gymnastics) to do a bridge
lumbar vertebra (lower backbone)
(bird species of China) white-rumped snowfinch (Onychostruthus taczanowskii)
dimples of Venus
to chop sb in half at the waist (capital punishment)
(bird species of China) crimson sunbird (Aethopyga siparaja)
waist
waist
belt
to stoop
(bird species of China) blue-rumped parrot (Psittinus cyanurus)
to bow
(bird species of China) striated swallow (Cecropis striolata)
waist measurement
to pay out of one's own pocket
loin
(lit.) to cry from hunger (from Taiwanese 哭枵, Tai-lo pr. [khàu-iau])
tall and strong
to bend at the waist
(bird species of China) Pallas's leaf warbler (Phylloscopus proregulus)
waist
isosceles triangle
waist drum
slender waist
(allusion to Tao Qian 陶潛|陶潜[táo qián], who used this phrase when he resigned from government service rather than show subservience to a visiting inspector) to bow and scrape for five pecks of rice (that being a part of his salary as a local magistrate)
halfway up a mountain
(hitting) squarely in the middle
(bird species of China) Aleutian tern (Onychoprion aleuticus)
to support
waist