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corn cheese

UK/kɔːn t͡ʃiːz/US/kɔɹn t͡ʃiz/

corn cheese noun: a South Korean dish made of sweet corn (often canned) and mozzarella cheese.

corn cheese: a South Korean dish made of sweet corn (often canned) and mozzarella cheese
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Noun

corn cheese (uncountable)

  1. A South Korean dish made of sweet corn (often canned) and mozzarella cheese.

Origin of corn cheese

Calque of Korean 콘치즈 (konchijeu), itself a pseudo-anglicism from English corn + cheese.

Questions about corn cheese

What does corn cheese mean?
Corn cheese means a South Korean dish made of sweet corn (often canned) and mozzarella cheese.
What part of speech is corn cheese?
Corn cheese is a noun.
How do you pronounce corn cheese?
Corn cheese is pronounced /kɔːn t͡ʃiːz/ (UK).

Words near corn cheese in the dictionary

  1. corn borers
  2. corn bread
  3. corn breads
  4. corn bunting
  5. corn buntings
  6. corn cheese
  7. corn chip
  8. corn chips
  9. corn circle
  10. corn circles
  11. corn cockle

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