kimchi

or kim·chee

[ kim-chee ]

noun

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

Origin of kimchi

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”

Words Nearby kimchi

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How to use kimchi in a sentence

Sometime last year, I riffed on the Korean soft tofu and kimchi stew called kimchi soondubu, and found a dish that I loved.
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As it turns out, making kimchi was a natural step toward healing.
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From the hanbok to kimchi, China faces growing accusations of trying to appropriate symbols of Korean culture.
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At the center of the story is Sunja Baek, a kimchi vendor who stoically absorbs the suffering of everyone around her as she perseveres through the decades.
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Chef Sohui Kim’s kimchi jjigae recipe had gotten lost in my rotation of go-to dishes this winter, so last week I was ready to revive the fiery Korean stew.
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But now they have brewpubs, pour-over coffee joints and kimchi taco stands.
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We had weird food concoctions, too, so instead of spaghetti bolognese, we had rice bolognese with kimchi.
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Joseph's two sons, Moses and David kimchi, followed in the footsteps of their father.
History of the Jews, Vol. III (of 6) | Heinrich Graetz
kimchi accordingly took up the cudgels for Maimuni all the more promptly, as he had at the same time to defend his own cause.
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The women of Wosan make the best kimchi, and when kimchi is spoiled it stinks to heaven.
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The root in Syriac means "to be sad," but kimchi derives it from a root "to be black."
The Expositor's Bible | F. W. Farrar
Even kimchi conjectured that Tekoa was an unknown town in the tribe of Asher.
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