がりがり

我利我利
selfishness
selfish person

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I

がりがり

1 〔固い物をかじったり強くひっかく時の音〕

●がりがりかみくだく crunch on 《a bone》

・(ネズミが)がりがりかむ gnaw on 《a floorboard》

・蚊にさされたところをがりがり掻く scratch a mosquito bite hard

・がりがりペンキを削り取る scrape paint off (with a rasping sound).

●船底をがりがりさせながら船は岩礁に乗り上げた. Scraping its bottom, the ship ran onto a reef.

2 〔固いさま〕 crunchy hardness.

●なま煮えでがりがりのニンジン a carrot that is crunchy hard from being undercooked.

●この芋は生焼けでがりがりする. This potato isn't fully baked and is still hard.

3 〔しゃにむに〕

●がりがり勉強する[働く] study very hard; grind away at study [work].

II

がりがり

〔ひどく痩せているさま〕

●食糧事情が悪くて当時はみんながりがりだった. The food situation was bad then, and everyone was reduced to skin and bone(s) [emaciated, all skin and bone(s)].

がりがりに

●がりがりに痩せる become emaciated; become reduced to [all] skin and bone(s)

・がりがりに痩せた男 an emaciated man; a man reduced to [all] skin and bone(s).