kimchi

Noun

kimchi (usually uncountable, plural kimchis)

1. (usually) 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.
   • "Yeah." He gestured to the kimchi. "Well, get it in ya, then."
     "It's better hot." she said.2019 January 26, Jo Storm, Snowhook, Dundurn, →ISBN
   • Despite the stew’s debt to kimchi, you know it has come into its own when it’s served with kimchi as a side dish.2023 June 29, Violet Kim, “Korean food: 39 dishes we can’t live without”, in CNN
2. (countable, derogatory, ethnic, slang, slur, usually) A Korean person.
   • How did I know the kimchis were trying to smuggle the crate out of Japan?1994, Richard Marcinko, Rogue Warrior II: Red Cell, Pocket Books, page 238
   • In the United States, Germans are sometimes called "krauts" ... Koreans "kimchis," and poor white Southerners "crackers"...2007, Pamela Goyan Kittler, Kathryn Sucher, Food and Culture, Cengage Learning, page 5