somyeon

English

Alternative forms

• sōmen

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 소면 (somyeon). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

somyeon

1. A kind of Korean noodle made with wheat flour
   • 2016 July 1, David Tanis, “Spicy Cold Noodles Offer an Antidote to Summer Heat”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Usually made with cold buckwheat noodles, naengmyeon, or thin wheat flour noodles, somyeon, it’s also good with Vietnamese rice noodles (or so I say, but I’m a heathen).

Anagrams

• neosomy, noysome