Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bokashi

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.07 in modern English

Syllables: bokashi
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The use of a mixture of microorganisms to cover food waste to decrease smell, based on an old Japanese farming practice.

Uncountable

noun

A technique in Japanese woodblock printing that achieves a variation in lightness and darkness of a single colour by means of ink applied by hand in gradations, rather than uniformly.

Uncountable

noun

The use of fogging or blurring to censor parts of an image, for example in Japanese pornography.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

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Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ぼかし.

Origin

Source language: Japanese

Word Breakdown

Root: ぼかし

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does bokashi mean?: The use of a mixture of microorganisms to cover food waste to decrease smell, based on an old Japanese farming practice.
Where does bokashi come from?: It is traced to Japanese.

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