슴가

Korean

Etymology

From 가슴 (gaseum) with the order of syllables reversed. First attested in the mid 2000s.

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [sʰɯmɡa̠]
• Phonetic hangul: [슴가]

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?	seumga
Revised Romanization (translit.)?	seumga
McCune–Reischauer?	sŭmga
Yale Romanization?	sumka

Noun

슴가 • (seumga)

1. (slang, neologism, vulgar) boob; woman's breast

   Synonym: 유방(乳房) (yubang)

   Hypernym: 가슴 (gaseum, “men's chest; women's breast”)

Usage notes

• Usually used with a sexualizing connotation to refer to women's breasts.

Trivia

The slang 슴가 was first popularized in the Internet as a euphemism for woman's breast. But it is quite vulgar expression for breast today, since it lacked everyday contexts of the original word 가슴 (gaseum) and kept only sexual one.