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tteokguk

tteokguk noun: a Korean dish containing sliced rice cakes (tteok), beef, eggs, and other ingredients, traditionally eaten during the Korean New Year.

Noun

tteokguk (uncountable)

  1. A Korean dish containing sliced rice cakes (tteok), beef, eggs, and other ingredients, traditionally eaten during the Korean New Year.
    • Originally tteokguk was strictly eaten on the first day of the Lunar New Year to signify good luck and the gaining of another year in age.2023 June 29, Violet Kim, “Korean food: 39 dishes we can’t live without”, in CNN

Origin of tteokguk

Borrowed from Korean 떡국 (tteokguk).

Questions about tteokguk

What does tteokguk mean?
Tteokguk means a Korean dish containing sliced rice cakes (tteok), beef, eggs, and other ingredients, traditionally eaten during the Korean New Year.
What part of speech is tteokguk?
Tteokguk is a noun.

Words near tteokguk in the dictionary

  1. TTD
  2. TTDI
  3. tteok
  4. tteok-bokki
  5. tteokbokki
  6. tteokguk
  7. tteoks
  8. TTF
  9. TTFB
  10. TTFN
  11. TTFT

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