What Does This Mean?
Korean food-preference term for pouring the sauce over fried food, above all tangsuyuk (Korean-Chinese sweet-and-sour pork), instead of dipping it; the opposite camp is 찍먹. The "pour versus dip" argument is a long-running, usually playful dispute in Korea.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
""Pour it all, I am 부먹," he said, tipping the sauce over the whole plate."
LORE & ORIGIN
부먹 joins 붓- ("to pour") with 먹다 ("to eat"). A 2021 WikiTree article defines 부먹 as eating tangsuyuk with the sauce poured over it, against 찍먹, and reports a Realmeter poll of 500 adults in which 30.6 percent chose 부먹 and 62.2 percent chose 찍먹, with the 30s age group the most pour-leaning at 46.4 percent. The article does not date the coinage of either word. The paired entry 찍먹 covers the dipping side.
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