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bosintang

bosintang noun: a soup from Korea, the main ingredient of which is dog meat.

Noun

bosintang (uncountable)

  1. A soup from Korea, the main ingredient of which is dog meat
    • The South Koreans we met on our trip sure seemed to love their local bosintang restaurants.
    • Perhaps John Feffer put it best when he identified the “greatest enemy” of bosintang to be not Brigitte Bardot but Colonel Sanders.2013, Robert Ji-Song Ku, Dubious Gastronomy, page 143

Forms of bosintang

alternative formboshintang
alternative formposhintang
alternative formposintang

Origin of bosintang

Borrowed from Korean 보신탕(補身湯) (bosintang, “bosintang”).

Questions about bosintang

What does bosintang mean?
Bosintang means a soup from Korea, the main ingredient of which is dog meat.
What part of speech is bosintang?
Bosintang is a noun.

Words near bosintang in the dictionary

  1. bosie
  2. bosies
  3. Bosiljevo
  4. bosino
  5. bosinos
  6. bosintang
  7. bosjemanite
  8. Bosjesman
  9. Bosjesmans
  10. Bosjesmen
  11. bosk

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