• 駄目だめ

  no good, not serving its purpose, useless, broken

• 無駄むだ

  futility, waste, uselessness, pointlessness, idleness

• 下駄げた

  geta, traditional Japanese wooden sandal

• 駄菓子だがし

  penny candy, cheap individually wrapped sweets

• 駄菓子屋だがしや

  small-time candy store, penny candy store

• 無駄遣いむだづかい

  waste (of money, time, etc.), squandering, frittering away

• 駄だ

  poor, low-grade, trivial, insignificant, worthless

• 駄句だく

  poor poem

• 駄荷だに

  horse's load

• 駄々だだ

  tantrum, fretting

• 駄犬だけん

  mongrel, cur, mutt

• 駄馬だば

  packhorse, workhorse, hack

• 駄弁だべん

  foolish tale, nonsense

• 駄本だほん

  worthless book, meritless book

• 駄物だもの

  trash, low-grade stuff

• 駄文だぶん

  poor piece of writing

• 駄作ださく

  poor piece of work, rubbish, trash

• 駄津だつ

  Pacific needlefish (Strongylura anastomella)

• 駄賃だちん

  reward, recompense, tip

• 一駄いちだ

  horse load

• 荷駄にだ

  pack, horseload

• 足駄あしだ

  high clogs, rain clogs

• 雪駄せった

  leather-soled sandals (geta)

• 駄法螺だぼら

  big talk, tall tale

• 駄弁るだべる

  to jabber, to chatter, to chat with

• 駄洒落だじゃれ

  feeble joke, poor joke, corny joke, bad pun

• 駄目元だめもと

  giving something a try because it will not do any harm

• 田下駄たげた

  geta for working in rice fields

• 下駄屋げたや

  clog shop, geta shop

• 下駄箱げたばこ

  shoe rack (at an entrance), shoe cupboard, shoe cubby

• 下駄番げたばん

  toe guards on clogs, footwear doorman

• 無駄骨むだぼね

  wasted effort, fruitless effort, vain efforts

• 無駄足むだあし

  visit for no reason, going on a fool's errand

• 無駄話むだばなし

  idle talk, chit-chat, gossip

• 無駄口むだぐち

  chatter, idle talk

• 無駄花むだばな

  blossom which fails to produce fruit, non-fruit-bearing flower

• 無駄飯むだめし

  living idly

• 駒下駄こまげた

  low wooden clogs, komageta

• 庭下駄にわげた

  garden clogs

• 高下駄たかげた

  tall wooden clogs

• 韋駄天いだてん

  Skanda (swift-footed guardian deity)

• 高足駄たかあしだ

  geta with high supports, tall clogs

• 山下駄やまげた

  rough geta (e.g. made of Japanese cedar)

• 柳下駄やなぎげた

  low geta made of willow

• 馬下駄うまげた

  low geta (once used when cleaning the garden)

• 無駄言むだごと

  chatter, idle talk

• お駄賃おだちん

  little something, reward, tip

• 無駄金むだがね

  wasted money

• 駄目詰めだめづめ

  filling neutral points, filling dame points

• 駄々っ子だだっこ

  unmanageable child, spoiled child (spoilt), spoiled brat