sushi
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 寿司(すし) (sushi, “sushi (sour rice)”), ultimately from archaic conjugation 酸(す)し (sushi, “sour, vinegared”) of modern adjective 酸(す)い (sui, “sour, vinegared”).
Inflected forms:
form: sushis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sushi
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sushis
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sushiing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sushied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sushied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A Japanese dish made of small portions of sticky white rice flavored with vinegar, usually wrapped in seaweed and filled or topped with fish, vegetables or meat.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: For the vegetarians, she served cucumber sushi.
He went to a Japanese restaurant and ordered sushi and noodles.
Suzuributa.—Mashed fish, eggs, 'sushi' of shrimps, plum cake, black mushroom, plum, and finely cut orange.
Not long ago a newspaper reporter came to interview me on the subject of unusual foods, and I described to him the persimmon-leaf sushi made by the people who live deep in the mountains of Yoshino—and which I shall take the opportunity to introduce to you here.
I lived in New York all my life. We used to have Chinese restaurants, ltalian restaurants. Now you have these sushi restaurants. Everyone goes for sushi. Sushi—I hate the stuff. Although, I tell you, I had some the other day. I took it home, I cooked it, it wasn't bad. It tasted like fish.
To appreciate sushi, you have to forget the tastes and textures that come with Western cuisine. At first glance (or should I say taste?), a sushi of flounder will not be that different from a sushi of sea bream. But, for the Japanese, these two sushi are as different as roast beef and roast pork are for a Westerner.
As Trevor Corson, author of “The Story of Sushi” explains, in Japan, sushi is typically eaten at a bar, where it’s customary for the customer to chat with the chef, who can recommend what’s in season. The short window during which the fish is fresh also makes it more likely to be tastier in Japan.
gloss: One of the portions from this dish.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
usually
examples: You will recall that, contrary to the relative appearance of the words, the sashimi are the simple raw fish slices and the sushi are the rolls of rice and raw fish.
Rusty put a sushi in her palm. / Mary Kate popped it into her mouth. It tasted salty and crunchy. “Cucumber!” she said. / “My grandmother puts a surprise in the middle of each one,” said Rusty.
I reach out and pop a sushi into my mouth while I’m waiting for someone to answer a question.
Startled by the venom, Erik almost dropped a sushi into his mixture of soy sauce and wasabi.
gloss: Raw fish, especially as a Japanese dish.
pos: noun
tags: proscribed
uncountable
usually
examples: 'Can't eat sushi?' I said. Then Mom said, 'You can't eat uncooked fish when you're pregnant' as if I'm the one stupid enough to go and get pregnant!
gloss: To prepare (a food) as sushi.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: Our finned friends come in all varieties: sushi-ed, fresh, smoked and otherwise packaged for your consumption.
Related words: California roll
nigiri
sashimi
sushi roll
kimbap
Derived words: conveyor belt sushi
nonsushi
southern sushi
sushi belt
sushi burrito
sushify
sushi-go-round
sushi grade
sushi knife
sushilike
sushi-meshi
sushi pizza
sushi rice
sushirrito
sushi terrorism
sushi train
tongue sushi
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: sushi
lang: Amharic
word: ሱሺ
roman: suši
lang: Arabic
word: سُوشِي
roman: sūšī
lang: Armenian
word: սուշի
roman: suši
lang: Azerbaijani
word: suşi
lang: Basque
word: sushi
lang: Belarusian
word: су́шы
roman: súšy
lang: Bengali
word: সুশি
roman: śuśi
lang: Breton
word: sushi
lang: Bulgarian
word: су́ши
roman: súši
lang: Burmese
word: ဆူရှီ
roman: hcuhri
lang: Catalan
word: sushi
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 壽司 /寿司
roman: sau⁶ si¹
lang: Hakka Chinese
word: 壽司 /寿司
roman: su-sí
lang: Chinese
word: 壽司 /寿司
roman: sú-sih
lang: Chinese
word: 醋飯箍 /醋饭箍
roman: chhò͘-pn̄g-kho͘
lang: Chinese
word: 臭酸飯 /臭酸饭
roman: chhàu-sng-pn̄g
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 壽司 /寿司
roman: shòusī
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 日本壽司 /日本寿司
roman: Rìběn shòusī
lang: Czech
word: suši
lang: Danish
word: sushi
lang: Dutch
word: sushi
lang: Esperanto
word: suŝio
lang: Estonian
word: suši
lang: Faroese
word: sushi
lang: Finnish
word: sushi
lang: Finnish
word: suši
lang: French
word: sushi
lang: Galician
word: sushi
lang: Georgian
word: სუში
roman: suši
lang: German
word: Sushi
lang: Bavarian German
word: Suschi
lang: Greek
word: σούσι
roman: soúsi
lang: Gujarati
word: સુશી
roman: suśī
lang: Hebrew
word: סוּשִׁי
roman: súshi
lang: Hindi
word: सुशी
roman: suśī
lang: Hindi
word: सूशी
roman: sūśī
lang: Hungarian
word: szusi
lang: Icelandic
word: sushi
lang: Ido
word: sushi
lang: Indonesian
word: sushi
lang: Indonesian
word: susyi
lang: Irish
word: súisí
lang: Italian
word: sushi
lang: Japanese
word: 寿司
roman: sushi
lang: Japanese
word: すし
roman: sushi
lang: Javanese
word: sushi
lang: Kannada
word: ಸುಶೀ
roman: suśī
lang: Kannada
word: ಸೂಶೀ
roman: sūśī
lang: Kazakh
word: суши
roman: suşi
lang: Khmer
word: ស៊ូស៊ី
roman: suusii
lang: Korean
word: 초밥
roman: chobap
lang: Korean
word: 스시
roman: seusi
lang: Kyrgyz
word: суши
roman: suşi
lang: Lao
word: ຊູຊິ
roman: sū si
lang: Latvian
word: suši
lang: Lithuanian
word: sušis
lang: Lü
word: ᦌᦳᦌᦲ
roman: susii
lang: Macedonian
word: су́ши
roman: súši
lang: Malay
word: susyi
lang: Malayalam
word: സുഷി
roman: suṣi
lang: Maltese
word: suxi
lang: Marathi
word: सुशी
roman: suśī
lang: Marathi
word: सूशी
roman: sūśī
lang: Classical Nahuatl
word: sushi
lang: Navajo
word: łóóʼ tʼáá tʼéehgo bił asdisígíí
lang: Navajo
word: łóóʼ binááʼádaałtsʼózí deiyánígíí
lang: Nepali
word: सुसी
roman: susī
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: sushi
lang: Iranian Persian
word: سوشی
roman: suši
lang: Polish
word: sushi
lang: Portuguese
word: sushi
lang: Punjabi
word: ਸੂਸ਼ੀ
roman: sūśī
lang: Punjabi
word: ਸੁਸ਼ੀ
roman: suśī
lang: Romanian
word: sushi
lang: Russian
word: су́ши
roman: súši
lang: Russian
word: су́си
roman: súsi
lang: Scots
word: sushi
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: су̏ши
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: sȕši
lang: Sinhalese
word: සුෂි
roman: suṣi
lang: Slovak
word: suši
lang: Slovene
word: suši
lang: Spanish
word: sushi
lang: Swahili
word: sushi
lang: Swedish
word: sushi
lang: Tagalog
word: sushi
lang: Tajik
word: суши
roman: suš-i
lang: Tamil
word: சுசீ
roman: cucī
lang: Tamil
word: சூசீ
roman: cūcī
lang: Telugu
word: సుశీ
roman: suśī
lang: Telugu
word: సూశీ
roman: sūśī
lang: Thai
word: ซูชิ
roman: suu-chí
lang: Tibetan
word: ཧྲོའུ་སི
roman: hro'u si
lang: Turkish
word: suşi
lang: Turkmen
word: suşi
lang: Ukrainian
word: су́ші
roman: súši
lang: Urdu
word: سُشی
roman: suśī
lang: Urdu
word: سُوشی
roman: sūśī
lang: Uzbek
word: sushi
lang: Vietnamese
word: sushi
lang: Welsh
word: swshi
lang: Yiddish
word: סושי
roman: sushi