Etymology

spam musubi

Today it means: A food, common in Hawaii, made of cooked spam tied to a block of rice with nori, differing from sushi in that the rice is not vinegared. Full definition →

Japanese 結び
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The story

  1. Japanese · derived from結び“rice ball”
  2. English todayspam musubi

From spam + musubi, from Japanese 結び (musubi, “rice ball”).

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