bokashi

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noun

The use of a mixture of microorganisms to cover food waste to decrease smell, based on an old Japanese farming practice.

OriginJapanese ぼかし →
Scrabble 16
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Meanings

nounbokashi (uncountable)
  1. uncountableagricultureThe use of a mixture of microorganisms to cover food waste to decrease smell, based on an old Japanese farming practice.

    For a bokashi starter kit, try evengreener.com .

    2015 July 18, Jane Perrone, “Gardens: what to do this week”, in The Guardian
  2. uncountablemediaA technique in Japanese woodblock printing that achieves a variation in lightness and darkness of a single colour by means of ink applied by hand in gradations, rather than uniformly.
  3. uncountableThe use of fogging or blurring to censor parts of an image, for example in Japanese pornography.

Origin

  1. Japaneseぼかし
  2. Englishbokashi

Borrowed from Japanese ぼかし.

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APA

bokashi. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bokashi

MLA

“bokashi.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bokashi. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bokashi,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bokashi.

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