Word Meaning 天狗になる

てんぐになる tenguninaru

天狗になる is read as てんぐになる (tenguninaru) and means to get conceited.

Meaning

English

to get conceited
to become vain
to get stuck up
to get a swollen head
to become a tengu

Reading

Kana

てんぐになる

Romaji

tenguninaru

Stroke Sequence

5 Characters • 20 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

Kanken 準1級 Proverb ✓ Rank 151314 Priority X

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

天狗

てんぐ

tengu

天狗話

てんぐばなし

boastful story

天狗道

てんぐどう

world of the tengu

天狗物

てんぐもの

category of noh plays who depict a tengu as the leading character

天狗礫

てんぐつぶて

rock flying out of nowhere (while in the mountains)

天狗蝙蝠

てんぐこうもり

Hilgendorf's tube-nosed bat (Murina hilgendorfi)

天狗茸

てんぐたけ

panther cap (species of poisonous mushroom, Amanita pantherina)

天狗風

てんぐかぜ

sudden gust

天狗フルーツ蝙蝠

てんぐふるーつこうもり

tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimeninae spp., esp. the common tube-nosed fruit bat, Nyctimene albiventer)

天狗倒し

てんぐだおし

large sound of unknown source heard on a forested mountain

天狗巣病

てんぐすびょう

witches' broom (plant disease)

天狗俳諧

てんぐはいかい

parlour game in which three people each write one line of a 5-7-5 poem (without seeing the other lines; often producing humorous results)

Example Sentences

天狗になるなよ。

Don't be overconfident.

大会で優勝したからって天狗になるな。お前と同じくらいに上手いやつなんて、世の中にはごろごろいるんだぞ。

Don't get such a big head just because you won the tournament. There's many others in the world who are just as good as you.