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► 動詞
こく  [(1)こく]  [coll]  [contempt]  [男]    meaning:  be  rank: 3
☆ おいいこいてやってんだ ⇨ What the hell are you doing? You’re too old for that

こく  [(1)こく]  [coll]  [rude]  [男]    meaning:  do  rank: 3
☆ お前屁をこいたろう! ⇨ You farted, didn’t you?
☆ 一回競馬勝ったんで調子こいてどんどんけたら全部負けた ⇨ I’d won with a horse racing once, so I got cocky and kept betting and ended up losing all

こく  [(1)こく]  [coll]  [contempt]  [男]    meaning:  say  rank: 3
☆ こいてんじゃねえ! ⇨ Stop lying! Bullshit!
☆ 適当こくな! ⇨ Stop talking bullshit!

► 名詞
コク  [(2)こく]    meaning:  taste  rank: 3
☆ 独特のコクの有るコーヒー ⇨ Coffee with distinctive deep taste  (☛ A very complex, multi-layered delicious flavor)

► 形容動詞
  [(1)こく]    meaning:  cruel  rank: 4
☆ はなんて酷な仕打ちをするんだろう ⇨ What a cruel treatment he dishes out

► 接尾辞
  [こく]    meaning:  country  rank: 2
☆ 石油産出国 ⇨ An oil-producing country
☆ 軍事大国 (たいこく) ⇨ A military-power country


More examples:
  • 彼女にしつこく寄っわれた ⇨ He hit on her persistently and fell completely out of her favor
  • 失敗のことをしつこく擦った ⇨ He repeatedly criticized my mistake in a roundabout way
  • 彼女投資失敗についてのことをしつこくなじった ⇨ She persistently criticized him for the botched investment
  • 彼女にしつこくつきまとった ⇨ He persistently followed her around
  • 彼女はねちっこく嫌味言う ⇨ She criticizes me subtly and persistently
  • 息子玩具買ってくれとしつこくねだった ⇨ My son pestered me to buy him a toy
  • 黙りこくってないでとかえ ⇨ Stop being silent and say something
  • 子供玩具買ってくれとしつこくせがむ ⇨ My kid asks me to buy him a toy persistently