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 Saturday June 11 2005

Phimosis

It’s interesting the words you come across when reading other blogs that occaisionally use non-english words. The Korean word 포경 (po kyung) in the context of The Marmots post means one of two things according to the dictionary. Once you click the lnk provided it is clear that it has something to do with whales and one of the definitions is whaling. The other definition is phimosis.

Phimosis is a medical condition in which the foreskin of the penis of an uncircumcised male cannot be fully retracted. Phimosis is a Greek term meaning muzzled.

I truly hope that no one here is muzzled, but if you are please don’t share.



Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Saturday Jun 11, 2005 at 07:06 PM
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마익 wrote 96 words  on  Sunday Jun 12, 2005  at  12:24 PM Korea (South)

I can’t figure out why they didn’t just say “foreskin.”  Yahoo’s dictionary defines it as “끝에 가죽이 덮인 어른의 자지” ☞ An end-is-covered-with-skin man’s penis. Nothing about medical conditions or retracting here. Chalk that up as another word in the old Korean-to-English dictionary that needs to be fixed.  Maybe I should license my translation above. ㅋㅋㅋ  Don’t suppose there’d be many takers for that unwieldy masterpiece.

On a related note, isn’t it funny how every dictionary out there has the same mistakes…you don’t suppose that the dictionary makers could be stealing from one another, do you?

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David wrote 58 words  on  Saturday Feb 17, 2007  at  10:16 AM Australia

My understanding is that the Korean phrase reads “whale-hunt”.  Given Koreans’ extreme reluctance to talk about sexual matters, my best guess is that this a schoolboy pun to describe the natural condition, misdiagnosed as phimosis. It is also worth noting that since about 1955 ~90% of S.Korean boys have been circumcised just before puberty.  Sorry if that’s TMI!

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