Etymograph

English

kuzumochi

Kuzumochi comes from Japanese 葛餅.

  1. Japanesemodern葛餅kuzumochi
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2017kuzumochi

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

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  1. Japanesemodern葛餅kuzumochi
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2017kuzumochi

Earliest quotation: 2017, Lou Antonelli, Another Girl: “She pushed her half-eaten kuzumochi toward me. “Here, you…”

Every English word from Japanese 葛餅

Today it means

noun Mochi cakes made of kudzu powder or from Lactobacillales-fermented wheat starch, a speciality dish local to certain wards of Tokyo, served chilled and topped with kuromitsu and kinako.

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Etymograph / Japanese 葛餅 / kuzumochi

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