Etymology

usuba bocho

Today it means: A thin, Japanese-style, straight-edged vegetable knife. Full definition →

Japanese 薄刃包丁
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed from薄刃包丁“thin knife”
  2. English todayusuba bocho

Borrowed from Japanese 薄刃包丁 (usuba-bōchō, “thin knife”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.