yakitori
/jækɪˈtɔəɹi/
yakitori noun: a Japanese shish kebab-type dish made with small pieces of chicken or other ingredients cooked on skewers, often marinated in soy sauce or seasoned with salt.
Noun
yakitori (countable and uncountable, plural yakitori or yakitoris)
- A Japanese shish kebab-type dish made with small pieces of chicken or other ingredients cooked on skewers, often marinated in soy sauce or seasoned with salt.
- Friday night on Ninsei. He passed yakitori stands and massage parlors, a franchised coffee shop called Beautiful Girl, the electronic thunder of an arcade.1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 10
- We should have the bazaars full of yakitori pitches and geishas in bamboo cages.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 851
Forms of yakitori
| plural | yakitori |
|---|---|
| plural | yakitoris |
Origin of yakitori
Borrowed from Japanese 焼(や)き鳥(とり) (yakitori), from 焼(や)き (yaki, “grilled, toasted”) + 鳥(とり) (tori, “bird”).
Questions about yakitori
- What does yakitori mean?
- Yakitori means a Japanese shish kebab-type dish made with small pieces of chicken or other ingredients cooked on skewers, often marinated in soy sauce or seasoned with salt.
- What part of speech is yakitori?
- Yakitori is a noun.
- How do you pronounce yakitori?
- Yakitori is pronounced /jækɪˈtɔəɹi/.
- What is the plural of yakitori?
- The plural of yakitori is yakitori.
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