表層形
ツマミ食い
ツマミグイ
名詞
ツマミ食い (ツマミグイ)
Tsumamigui · つまみぐい — eating with one's fingers; snitching food, snatched food, secret eating, food snatched and eaten without the meal starting; embezzlement, misappropriation, exploiting something
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ツマミ食い in rōmaji: tsumamigui.
名詞
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Updated: 2026年10月3日
📖 Grammar Information
| 表層形 (Surface) |
ツマミ食い
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| 見出し語 (Lemma) |
摘み食い
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| 読み (Reading) |
ツマミグイ
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| 品詞 (POS) |
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| 活用型 (Conj. Type) |
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| 活用形 (Conj. Form) |
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| 表記 (Orthography) |
ツマミ食い
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| 読み・基本形 |
ツマミグイ
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| 表記・基本形 |
ツマミ食い
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| 見出し語の読み |
ツマミグイ
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💡 English Meaning
ツマミ食い means “eating with one's fingers; snitching food, snatched food, secret eating, food snatched and eaten without the meal starting; embezzlement, misappropriation, exploiting something” — full definition & examples →
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ツマミグイ
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The surface form (ツマミ食い) is the exact text as it appeared in the corpus — it may be conjugated or inflected. The lemma (摘み食い) is the dictionary base form. For example, 食べた (surface) has the lemma 食べる.
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