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niku-nuki

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.01 in modern English

Syllables
niku-nu-ki
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A method of preserving both the shell and the body intact, by using hot water on a live specimen to separate the two.

Uncountable

Etymology

From Japanese 肉抜き (niku-nuki, literally “flesh removal”), introduced to English by Fukuda, Haga, and Tatara in 2007.

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What does niku-nuki mean?
A method of preserving both the shell and the body intact, by using hot water on a live specimen to separate the two.
Where does niku-nuki come from?
It is traced to Japanese.

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