Etymology

shirataki

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Today it means: Thin, translucent, gelatinous traditional Japanese noodles made from the Asian plant konjac. Full definition →

Japanese 白滝
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed from白滝
  2. English todayshirataki

Borrowing from Japanese 白滝 (shirataki).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.