Illustration: At the sink of a small Japanese fish shop, a cook tries to hold a freshly rinsed eel above a shallow basin. The eel slides through both hands despite the cook's carefully curled fingers, its body already looping back toward the water.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

ぬるぬる

nurunuru

to feel slimy, to feel slippery

Example sentences

  1. カエルはぬるぬるしてる。

    Frogs are slimy.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. ぬるぬるしてつかみにくい

    slippery and hard to grab

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  3. 体表たいひょうは粘膜ねんまくに覆おおわれぬるぬるしているが、皮下ひかに小ちいさな鱗うろこをもつ。

    Surface of the body is slimy because it is covered by mucous, but there are tiny scales underneath the skin.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

A word like this on every new tab

The Bebop Chrome extension shows one illustrated Japanese word each time you open a new tab in Chrome, with its reading, meaning, kanji and three example sentences. Choose any mix of levels from N5 to beyond N1. It’s free, with no account.

The Bebop new tab showing 音楽, music, over an illustration of a family playing music at home, with three example sentences
Add to Chrome Free on the Chrome Web Store
For Chrome on a computer. See it on the Chrome Web Store