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tteok

/tʌk/

tteok noun: a type of sweet cake from Korea, made from rice flour.

tteok: a type of sweet cake from Korea, made from rice flour
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Noun

tteok (plural tteoks or tteok)

  1. A type of sweet cake from Korea, made from rice flour.
    • But my eye was immediately drawn to the add-on: country ham with tteok and honey.2022 October 4, Nikita Richardson, “Rice Cakes, Rice Rolls, Rice Sweets”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 04 Dec 2022
    Synonyms:
    dduk, toppoki

tteok meaning in Indonesian

tteok in Indonesian

a type of sweet cake from Korea, made from rice flour
tok

Synonyms of tteok

Forms of tteok

pluraltteoks
pluraltteok

Origin of tteok

Borrowed from Korean 떡 (tteok).

Words that rhyme with tteok

39 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about tteok

What does tteok mean?
Tteok means a type of sweet cake from Korea, made from rice flour.
What is tteok in Indonesian?
Tteok in Indonesian is tok. See Tteok meaning in Indonesian.
What part of speech is tteok?
Tteok is a noun.
How do you pronounce tteok?
Tteok is pronounced /tʌk/.
What is the plural of tteok?
The plural of tteok is tteoks.

Words near tteok in the dictionary

  1. ttbars
  2. TTBOMK
  3. TTC
  4. TTD
  5. TTDI
  6. tteok
  7. tteok-bokki
  8. tteokbokki
  9. tteokguk
  10. tteoks
  11. TTF

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