突っ突く

突っつく

Reading

Kana: つっつく

Romaji: tsuttsuku

Definitions

v5k

vt

1

to poke (repeatedly, lightly); to nudge

See also: 突く (reading つつく, entry #1)

2

to peck at (one's food); to pick at

3

to peck at (someone's faults, etc.)

4

to egg on; to put up to

Kanji

突

Readings: トツ、 カ、 つ.く

Meanings: stab, protruding, thrust, pierce, prick, collision, sudden

Example Sentence

ハゲタカが突(つ)っつく死(し)んだ鹿(しか)とか、他(た)の動物(どうぶつ)の食(た)べ残(のこ)しとか、そういう腐(くさ)った肉(にく)を死(し)肉(にく)と書(か)きました。

➥A dead deer being pecked by vultures, remains partly eaten by other animals, that sort of rotten meat is called 'carrion'.