kimchi

Or kim·chee

[kim-chee]

noun

1. Korean Cooking.,  a spicy pickled or fermented mixture containing cabbage, onions, and sometimes fish, variously seasoned, as with garlic, horseradish, red peppers, and ginger.

Word History and Origins

Origin of kimchi¹

First recorded in 1895–1900; from Korean kimch'i, hypercorrection of cimch'i, earlier timchoy, from Middle Chinese, equivalent to Chinese chén “steeped” + cày “vegetables”

Example Sentences

Kennedy told Fox News in August that he follows a carnivore diet of mainly meat, yogurt and fermented vegetables like kimchi.

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“Chuppahs and kimchi,” he repeated, giddy to have coined a new catchphrase for multicultural weddings.

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When I was a kid, my friends would come to my house and they would see my mom making kimchi, and they would say, “What is that stink?”

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“There are Thai women, Russian women, women of all nationalities. There is no need to suffer the stress of dating a Korean kimchi woman.”

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“I remember telling the crew I only want kimchi on the table,” Kang told Salon in a Zoom interview.

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