敷く
しく
Meanings
- Godan verb, Transitive to spread out (e.g. a futon); to lay out
- to lay down (e.g. a cushion) (sometimes written as 藉く)
- to impose widely (e.g. martial law); to promulgate (sometimes written as 布く)
- to pin down; to hold down See also: 尻に敷く (しりにしく).
- to lay (e.g. railway tracks) (sometimes written as 布く)
- to deploy (e.g. troops) (sometimes written as 布く)
- Godan verb, Intransitive to spread (e.g. snow); to be propagated
Kanji
- 敷 lay. Read as しく.
Example sentences
- 奥さんの尻にしかれている。
His wife leads him by the nose. - トムってしっかり奥さんの尻に敷かれているのね。
Tom's wife keeps him on such a short rope. - その床には厚いじゅうたんが敷いてある。
The floor is covered with a thick carpet. - このじゅうたんは床全体に敷けるほどの大きさである。
This carpet is big enough to cover the whole floor. - あの家は女房が亭主をしりに敷いている。
She wears the trousers in that house.
Common phrases
- 陣を敷く (じんをしく) to encamp
- 下に敷く
- 体制を敷く
- シートを敷く
- 戒厳令を敷く
- 線路を敷く
- 床に敷く
- 底に敷く
- 院政を敷く
- シフトを敷く
- マットを敷く
- 尻に敷く (しりにしく) to dominate (usu. one's husband)
- 厳戒態勢を敷く
- 布陣を敷く
- 布団を敷く (ふとんをしく) to lay out a futon
Words containing 敷く
And 6 more.