Etymology

shoyu-tai

Today it means: A single-use plastic soy sauce recipient in the format of a fish. Full definition →

Japanese 醤油鯛
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed from醤油鯛“soy sauce bream”
  2. English todayshoyu-tai

Borrowed from Japanese 醤油鯛 (shoyu-tai, “soy sauce bream”).

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