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Korean
Etymology
From 가슴 (gaseum) with the order of syllables reversed. First attested in the mid 2000s.
Pronunciation
| Romanizations |
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| Revised Romanization? | seumga |
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| Revised Romanization (translit.)? | seumga |
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| McCune–Reischauer? | sŭmga |
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| Yale Romanization? | sumka |
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Noun
슴가 • (seumga)
- (slang, neologism, vulgar) boob; woman's breast
- Synonym: 유방(乳房) (yubang)
- Hypernym: 가슴 (gaseum, “men's chest; women's breast”)
Usage notes
- Usually used with a sexualizing connotation to refer to women's breasts.
Trivia
The slang 슴가 was first popularized in the Internet as a euphemism for woman's breast. But it is quite vulgar expression for breast today, since it lacked everyday contexts of the original word 가슴 (gaseum) and kept only sexual one.