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- Korean · borrowed from호떡
- English todayhotteok
Borrowed from Korean 호떡 (hotteok), from 호(胡)- (ho-, “foreign, i.e. Chinese”) + 떡 (tteok, “tteok”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A type of filled pancake, popular as street food in South Korea. Full definition →