Word

門前払い

もんぜんばらい
Common

Meanings

  1. Noun · Suru verb · Transitive

    turning someone away (at the front door); refusing a visitor; shutting the door in someone's face; refusal of admission

  2. Noun

    rejecting without consideration; denying without substantial investigation

  3. Noun

    being chased away from a magistrate's office's gate (lightest punishment during the Edo period)

Other forms
門前払

Kanji in this word

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