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- Japanese · borrowed from肉抜き
- English todayniku-nuki
From Japanese 肉抜き (niku-nuki, literally “flesh removal”), introduced to English by Fukuda, Haga, and Tatara in 2007.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
niku-nuki
Today it means: A method of preserving both the shell and the body intact, by using hot water on a live specimen to separate the two. Full definition →
Japanese 肉抜き