Korean Cooking. a spicy pickled or fermented mixture containing cabbage, onions, and sometimes fish, variously seasoned, as with garlic, horseradish, red peppers, and ginger.
Origin of kimchi
First recorded in 1895–1900; from Korean kimch'i, hypercorrection of cimch'i, earlier timchoy, from Middle Chinese, equivalent to Chinese chén “steeped” + cày “vegetables”
Words nearby kimchi
Kim, Kimball, Kimberley, kimberlite, Kimbundu, kimchi, Kim Dae Jung, Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong-un, Kimmelstiel-Wilson disease