bosintang

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noun

A soup from Korea, the main ingredient of which is dog meat

“The South Koreans we met on our trip sure seemed to love their local bosintang restaurants.”

OriginKorean 보신탕(補身湯) →
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Meanings

nounbosintang (uncountable)

alternative boshintang · alternative poshintang · alternative posintang

  1. uncountableA soup from Korea, the main ingredient of which is dog meat

    The South Koreans we met on our trip sure seemed to love their local bosintang restaurants.

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    Perhaps John Feffer put it best when he identified the “greatest enemy” of bosintang to be not Brigitte Bardot but Colonel Sanders.

    2013, Robert Ji-Song Ku, Dubious Gastronomy, page 143

Origin

  1. Korean보신탕(補身湯)“bosintang”
  2. Englishbosintang

Borrowed from Korean 보신탕(補身湯) (bosintang, “bosintang”).

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APA

bosintang. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bosintang

MLA

“bosintang.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bosintang. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bosintang,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bosintang.

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