薙

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trim

On-Yomi: テイ

Koohii stories:

1) [mantixen] 24-7-2009(35): Get a pheasant (#2584 雉) to trim your flowers for you.

2) [hissatsu] 18-11-2010(8): This lawn doesn't need just a trim. With flowers and weeds so thick I have pheasants nesting in it, it needs to be mowed down.

3) [blannk] 10-3-2010(4): Trim pheasants trim flowers, flabby ones leave flowers a ruin. Conventional wisdom. But the key word is off: 薙ぐ /なぐ is more radical than 'to trim', more like 'to slash down or away', as with a 薙刀 /なぎなた/long-handled sword, & so, Sod's law, I hired a trim pheasant to trim my flowers & he took a scythe to them instead!

4) [herman] 16-1-2009(3): Wtf trim? Using "mow down" as keyword. Picture a pheasant massacre where all the pheasants were mowed down and now flowers have been placed there to commemorate the event.

5) [n1williams] 28-11-2009(2): When you TRIM the FLOWER field with that huge mower you may also get a few PHEASANT - because they nest there.

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