mukbang

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English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 먹방 (meokbang, literally “eating broadcast”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmʌkbɑŋ/, /ˈmʌkbæŋ/
    • Audio (US):(file)
  • (hyperforeignism) IPA(key): /ˈmʊkbɑŋ/, /ˈmuːkbɑŋ/

Noun

mukbang (countable and uncountable, plural mukbangs)

  1. (social media) An online video broadcast in which a person eats while interacting with their audience.
    • 2016 January 6, shawn, “Re: AT&T U-Verse Shysters”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):
      After all there's a huge market in South Korea for mukbangs. That's where someone is streaming as they eat. […] In any case there seem to be no particular types that are successful at streaming a mukbang since there are pretty young girls and heavy guys that seem to get a lot of viewers.
    • 2017, Charles Spence, Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating, Penguin, →ISBN, page 57:
      I also get the sense, though, that some of those who, for whatever reason, often end up eating alone are tuning in for a dose of mukbang at mealtimes to get some virtual company (see the “Social Dining” chapter).
    • 2018, Crystal Abidin, Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online, Emerald Group Publishing, →ISBN, page 26:
      In each group of comments, the intersectionality of Kinoshita's identity markers is compounded as she is singled out as a mukbang eater, a female mukbang eater, a slim female mukbang eater, and finally a slim Asian female mukbang eater, […]
    • 2022, “Estaciones”, performed by Action Bronson ft. Hologram:
      I eat the pussy like a mukbang, let my nuts hang

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Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmʊkbɑŋ/, /ˈmuːkbɑŋ/

Noun

mukbang (first-person possessive mukbangku, second-person possessive mukbangmu, third-person possessive mukbangnya)

  1. Alternative form of mokbang

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Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 먹방 (meokbang, “eating broadcast”), influenced by spelling of English mukbang.

Pronunciation

Noun

mukbang or mukbáng (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜃ᜔ᜊᜅ᜔)

  1. (social media) mukbang (online video broadcast)
  2. (colloquial, by extension) gorging large amounts of food

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