흙밥
Korean
Etymology
흙 (heuk, “earth, soil”) + 밥 (bap, “rice (as food)”). "Shovelful" from an imagery of a shovel as a spoon scooping rice; "death" probably from the imagery of the corpse becoming "food" for the earth.
Pronunciation
- (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [xɯk̚p͈a̠p̚]
- Phonetic hangul: [흑빱]
| Romanizations | |
|---|---|
| Revised Romanization? | heukbap |
| Revised Romanization (translit.)? | heulgbab |
| McCune–Reischauer? | hŭkpap |
| Yale Romanization? | hulk.pap |
Noun
흙밥 • (heukbap)
- shovelful of soil; spadeful of soil; plow-ful of soil
- (Yukjin, euphemistic) corpse; food for worms
- 2019, 곽충구 [Kwak Chung-gu], 두만강 유역의 조선어 방언 사전 [Dictionary of Korean Dialects of the Tumen River Area], volume II, Taehaksa, →ISBN, page 3702:
- 이 딸이 가 버어대니무 어저느 예 흙밥이 댄 디 오랍구마.
- I ttar-i ga beo'eo-daeni-mu eojeo-neu ye heukbab-i daen di orapguma.
- If this daughter of mine didn't go out and make money, I would have ended up as food for worms long ago.
Further reading
- 곽충구 [Kwak Chung-gu] (2019) 두만강 유역의 조선어 방언 사전 [Dictionary of Korean Dialects of the Tumen River Area], volume II, Taehaksa, →ISBN, page 3702