表層形
ムダ食い
ムダグイ
名詞
ムダ食い (ムダグイ)
Mudagui · むだぐい — eating between meals, wasteful eating habits, waste of resources; living idly, loafing one's way through life
Other ways to say “eating between meals” in Japanese →
ムダ食い in rōmaji: mudagui.
名詞
普通名詞
一般
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📝 無駄食い 🔤 * 📐 *
Updated: 2026年8月25日
📖 Grammar Information
| 表層形 (Surface) |
ムダ食い
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| 見出し語 (Lemma) |
無駄食い
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| 読み (Reading) |
ムダグイ
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| 品詞 (POS) |
名詞・普通名詞・一般・*
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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) |
ムダ食い
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| 読み・基本形 |
ムダグイ
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| 表記・基本形 |
ムダ食い
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| 見出し語の読み |
ムダグイ
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💡 English Meaning
ムダ食い means “eating between meals, wasteful eating habits, waste of resources; living idly, loafing one's way through life” — full definition & examples →
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ムダグイ
Lemma: 無駄食い
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The surface form (ムダ食い) is the exact text as it appeared in the corpus — it may be conjugated or inflected. The lemma (無駄食い) is the dictionary base form. For example, 食べた (surface) has the lemma 食べる.
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