Word.ws English Dictionary

pajeon

pajeon noun: a Korean pancake made with green onions.

pajeon: a Korean pancake made with green onions
Image: Maggie, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

pajeon (plural pajeons or pajeon)

  1. A Korean pancake made with green onions.
    • But high-end restaurants in Seoul are now turning away from Western food and toward Korean tradition, drawing on both everyday snacks like pajeon and painstaking arts like the making of tteok, sticky rice pounded into a dizzying array of shapes, colors and flavors.2009 September 23, Julia Moskin, “Culinary Diplomacy With a Side of Kimchi”, in New York Times

Forms of pajeon

pluralpajeons
pluralpajeon

Origin of pajeon

From Korean 파전 (pajeon).

Questions about pajeon

What does pajeon mean?
Pajeon means a Korean pancake made with green onions.
What part of speech is pajeon?
Pajeon is a noun.
What is the plural of pajeon?
The plural of pajeon is pajeons.

Words near pajeon in the dictionary

  1. pajeet
  2. pajeeta
  3. pajeets
  4. pajeetware
  5. pajeetwares
  6. pajeon
  7. pajeons
  8. Pajitnov
  9. Pajo
  10. pajock
  11. pajocke

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pajeon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “pajeon.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pajeon. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.