Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Cold cooked rice dressed with vinegar that is shaped into pieces and topped with raw or cooked fish, or formed into a roll with fish, egg, or vegetables and often wrapped in seaweed.
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- noun proscribed A dish, based on Japanese cuisine, the chief ingredient of which is raw fish;
sashimi . - noun A Japanese dish made of small portions of sticky white rice flavoured with vinegar, usually wrapped in
seaweed and filled or topped with vegetables orsashimi .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun rice (with raw fish) wrapped in seaweed
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Our date would involve a dinner of sushi (you know, an aquatic theme, plus after eating sushi with her, I would really like to eat her sushi nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
drbigbeef Diary Entry drbigbeef 2006
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Single grain sushi is sold in plates of 10 or 12 (arranged in a circle with a couple of strips of leek in the middle to form the hands of a clock) and features all the typical sushi, including makimono, tako, tamago, ikura, kohata, anago, ebi, ika, Otoro and kanpachi.
Japan’s Latest Wacky Food Gimmick: One-Grain Sushi | Impact Lab 2006
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Dropping a hunk of it onto your sushi is an American thing.
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(Wrong season this time, but the sushi is the important part, anyhow!)
Archive 2008-03-01 kittenpie 2008
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(Wrong season this time, but the sushi is the important part, anyhow!)
Substitute My Coke For Gin kittenpie 2008
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For those of you not that familiar with Mexico, so-called "sushi" is very popular here but what we are talking about here is akin to touting the virtues of Mexican food at Taco Bell in Peoria.
Your Favorites? 2005
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Single grain sushi is not the latest diet fad to hit the country, it’s just the latest item on the menu at Omoroi Sushiya Kajiki, a sushi restaurant with a sense of humor in Fukuoka.
Japan’s Latest Wacky Food Gimmick: One-Grain Sushi | Impact Lab 2006
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We ate our weight in sushi and played with my new mouse.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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The sushi is always fresh and their udon soups are good.
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The other sushi is great too, esp. the scallop and tomago (egg).
chained_bear commented on the word sushi
For interesting conversation, see ostrich fern.
October 21, 2007
frangarnes commented on the word sushi
Sushi @ Wikipedia (Spanish)
October 22, 2007
rocioo commented on the word sushi
The only thing you need to remember is that sushi is not a raw fish. Sushi means vinegared rice. June 18th was purported as being National Sushi Day, even though no one had ever heard of it before. It seems to be one of those internet holidays, made up by marketing departments to get people to buy stuff – it's not as if that isn't a distinct possibility. Most people who have written about it so far have all pointed out that they had never heard of National Sushi Day, and that it is probably spurious. At any rate, those who go for it might file into Japanese restaurants and get in on celebrating the suspicious National Sushi Day.
June 22, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word sushi
True, and many varieties of what we know as "sushi" are not even raw.
June 22, 2009
madmouth commented on the word sushi
archetypal sushi
June 23, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word sushi
"Alice Mabel Bacon, who spent much time in Japan, introduced the word "sushi" into the English language in 1893, in her book A Japanese Interior. It is doubtful that this sushi, which she described as "rice sandwiches," was made with fish. We do know that the "sushi" included on the menu of a Japanese dinner in the fall of 1894 at the Club of All Nations in Manhattan was not. Almost 30 years later, in the spring of 1924, "sushi" was served on the lawn of the Vanderlip estate, in Scarborough-on-Hudson, at a fund-raising event for a women's college in Tokyo, but it is almost certain that no raw fish was involved. All these early references to sushi are likely to variations of the simple treats of sweet sushi rice wrapped in seaweed or in little soybean cakes that were so popular among Japanese children. Source & citation.
September 30, 2011
sionnach commented on the word sushi
Miss Bacon was later admitted to an upscale New York clinic, suffering from fulgurant fugu addiction. It is not known whether or not she was ever cured.
Guffaws childishly, slapping thighs in simulated mirth.
September 30, 2011
hernesheir commented on the word sushi
*Slaps thews in genuine mirth.*
September 30, 2011