こつこつ働く

こつこつはたらく コツコツはたらく

to work hard, to toil, to moil, to keep one's nose to the grindstone, to slug away

こけつ転びつ

こけつまろびつ

(hurrying along) falling and stumbling, falling all over oneself

つべこべ

complaining, nitpicking

こじつけ

distortion, stretch, strained interpretation, technicality, casuistry, sophistry

しつこい

しつっこい

insistent, obstinate, persistent, tenacious

槌骨

つちこつ ついこつ

malleus (bone of the ear)

此奴

こいつ こやつ

this fellow, this guy, this person

個々別々

ここべつべつ

each one separately

骨盤骨

こつばんこつ

Pelvic Bones

忽

こつ

one hundred-thousandth

跟骨

こんこつ ごんこつ

calcaneus, calcaneum, heel bone

骨壷

こつつぼ

funerary urn

椎骨

ついこつ

vertebra, vertebrae

兀立

こつりつ

towering

九つ

ここのつ

nine

硬骨

こうこつ

bone

恍惚

こうこつ

ecstasy, trance

九つ時

ここのつどき ここのつじ

(approx.) 12 o'clock (am or pm), noon, midnight

鐙骨

あぶみこつ とうこつ アブミこつ

stirrup (bone of the ear), stapes