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Kimchi - What does it mean?

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kimchi

English

(wikipedia kimchi)

Alternative forms

* kimchee, gimchee

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A Korean dish made of vegetables, such as cabbage or radishes, that are salted, seasoned, and stored in sealed containers to undergo lactic acid fermentation.
  • (slang, ethnic slur, pejorative) A Korean person.
  • * 1994 , Richard Marcinko, Rogue Warrior II: Red Cell , Pocket Books, page 238:
    • How did I know the kimchis were trying to smuggle the crate out of Japan?
  • * 2007 , Pamela Goyan Kittler and Kathryn Sucher, Food and Culture , Cengage Learning, page 5:
    • In the United States, Germans are sometimes called "krauts" ... Koreans "kimchis ," and poor white Southerners "crackers"...
  • * 2011 , Gerald M. Weinberg, Freshman Murders , Weinberg & Weinberg:
    • ... he doesn't know the difference between Ping-Pongs and Kimchis .

    Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.