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    3. つまみ食い

    つまみ食い

    つ​ま​み​食ぐい​

    eating with one's fingers

    NTNoun, Participle, Verb, TransitiveDaily LifeFood & DiningKanji Vocab17 strokes

    摘み食い摘まみ食い撮み食い

    つまみぐい

    Noun, Participle, Verb, Transitive

    1.
    eating with one's fingers
    2.
    snitching food, snatched food, secret eating, food snatched and eaten without the meal starting
    3.
    embezzlement, misappropriation, exploiting something
    4.
    flirting

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    Characters that make up this word

    食
    く.う・く.らう・た.べる・は.む…(3)
    eat・food
    Kanji
    つ
    tsu
    Kana
    ま
    ma
    Kana
    み
    mi
    Kana
    い
    i
    Kana
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