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がりっと

gari-tto

Biting something hard

The jarring crunch of biting into something unexpectedly hard, like a bone in fish or a stone in rice.

💡Finding a bone fragment in fish — 'I bit gari-tto into something hard in the fillet.'

Example

魚の骨をがりっとかんでしまった。

I bit gari-tto into a fish bone.

Quiz yourself

I ___ bit into something hard in the rice.

ご飯の中の硬いものを○○とかんでしまった。

bitinghardcrunchboneunexpected
Intermediate