Definitions

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  • noun Large cylindrical sushi, often vegetarian, with nori on the outside and fillings chosen to complement each other.

Etymologies

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Japanese 太巻, literally "thick rolls".

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Examples

  • You are in America would often turn into a discussion of food, and Dad would caution us about eating weird foods, even as we sat there happily popping dduk bok-ki or gim-bahp the Japanese call it futomaki with our chopsticks.

    The Anchorman Who Came to Dinner - Peter Jennings, 1938-2005 2005

  • You are in America would often turn into a discussion of food, and Dad would caution us about eating weird foods, even as we sat there happily popping dduk bok-ki or gim-bahp the Japanese call it futomaki with our chopsticks.

    Archive 2005-08-01 2005

  • Geem-bahp (also known as futomaki in Japanese), bean-dae dduk (mung bean pancakes), dduk-bok-gee (spicy pan sauteed rice cakes).

    Archive 2005-05-01 2005

  • Geem-bahp (also known as futomaki in Japanese), bean-dae dduk (mung bean pancakes), dduk-bok-gee (spicy pan sauteed rice cakes).

    A Labor of Love - Bibim-bahp 2005

  • What you see here is 'futomaki', one of Japan's most common rolled sushi.

    Sushi instead of pumpkin today... 2005

  • What you see here is 'futomaki', one of Japan's most common rolled sushi.

    Archive 2005-10-01 2005

  • Here in Hawai’i, we combine a kind of futomaki O-nigiri with Spam to make “musubi.”

    Someone’s class project…. 2006

  • I grew up with the comfort-food working class versions of sushi -- fat futomaki rolls with seven ingredients none of which is sashimi and inari, the "footballs" of sushi rice stuffed into a pouch of fried tofu skin.

    Gil Asakawa: Noodling on a Theme: A Colorado Ramen Roundup Gil Asakawa 2011

  • I grew up with the comfort-food working class versions of sushi -- fat futomaki rolls with seven ingredients none of which is sashimi and inari, the "footballs" of sushi rice stuffed into a pouch of fried tofu skin.

    Gil Asakawa: Noodling on a Theme: A Colorado Ramen Roundup Gil Asakawa 2011

  • But the floral tributes had better be prepared to make way for futomaki, hamachi and otoro , all courtesy of Dame Judi Dench, Mr. Rees's close friend and fellow Royal Shakespeare Company denizen.

    Like Gomez, He's an Enthusiast Joanne Kaufman 2011

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