kimchi

plural kimchis · alternative kimchee · alternative kim chee · alternative gimchee · alternative gimchi

1. uncountableusuallyA Korean dish made of vegetables, such as cabbage or radishes, that are salted, seasoned, and stored in sealed containers to undergo lactic acid fermentation.

   "Yeah." He gestured to the kimchi. "Well, get it in ya, then." "It's better hot." she said.

   2019 January 26, Jo Storm, Snowhook, Dundurn, →ISBN

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   Despite the stew’s debt to kimchi, you know it has come into its own when it’s served with kimchi as a side dish.

   2023 June 29, Violet Kim, “Korean food: 39 dishes we can’t live without”, in CNN

2. countablederogatoryethnicslangslurusuallyA Korean person.

   ... he doesn't know the difference between Ping-Pongs and Kimchis.

   2011, Gerald M. Weinberg, Freshman Murders, Weinberg & Weinberg

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   How did I know the kimchis were trying to smuggle the crate out of Japan?

   1994, Richard Marcinko, Rogue Warrior II: Red Cell, Pocket Books, page 238

   In the United States, Germans are sometimes called "krauts" ... Koreans "kimchis," and poor white Southerners "crackers"...

   2007, Pamela Goyan Kittler, Kathryn Sucher, Food and Culture, Cengage Learning, page 5