bosintang

English

Alternative forms

• boshintang, poshintang, posintang

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 보신탕(補身湯) (bosintang, “bosintang”).

Noun

bosintang (uncountable)

1. A soup from Korea, the main ingredient of which is dog meat

   The South Koreans we met on our trip sure seemed to love their local bosintang restaurants.

   • 2013, Robert Ji-Song Ku, Dubious Gastronomy, page 143:

     Perhaps John Feffer put it best when he identified the “greatest enemy” of bosintang to be not Brigitte Bardot but Colonel Sanders.