躇

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dither

On-Yomi: チョ

Koohii stories:

1) [Katsuo] 4-11-2007(28): People with wooden legs are renowned for dithering over whether to decorate them with a drop of paint or not.

2) [zazen666] 27-1-2009(9): The wooden leg pirate dithers to give flowers to my love doll, cause he is afraid I will kick his ass.

3) [kapalama] 30-1-2012(6): Note: 躊 hesitate (#2996 躊) and 躇 dither (#2994 躇) mean the same thing and are used as a unit exclusively.. 躊躇する , 躊躇う dither (#2994 躇) チョ( 著 ),ためらう … Parts: ⻊, 著 renowned (#1258 著) … for 躇 Story: The Old School Renowned Pirate (Old School because he does not tap of the last drop off before he tucks it back in) is often accused of Diddling because of that same drop. Wait, it's Dither.

4) [dihutenosa] 16-8-2008(2): This is Chester's girlfriend, Chesty. It's rather easy to tell who's who in person (check the name!) but in kanji form, the only way to tell is by looking for her tiny drop earring that she always wears on the right. Anyway, here, she has been given the option of being free of puppetry and getting her own set of nice, solid, wooden legs! But she can't decide whether she wants to be independent yet, so she starts to dither about it - her drop earring wobbles as she dithers…

5) [wilsoncb] 30-8-2010(1): The renowned author who had a peg leg was dithering aout whether to get a tattoo (drop) on it - after all, as a renowned public figure, he had his image to consider… (thanks alucardchuu).

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