그슥
Korean
Pronunciation
- (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [kɯsʰɯk̚]
- Phonetic hangul: [그슥]
| Romanizations | |
|---|---|
| Revised Romanization? | geuseuk |
| Revised Romanization (translit.)? | geuseug |
| McCune–Reischauer? | kŭsŭk |
| Yale Romanization? | kusuk |
Etymology
Dialectal variant of 거시기 (geosigi) (“vague placeholder noun, ‘thingy; whatchamacallit’”). See 거시기 (geosigi) for a fuller discussion of related forms.
Noun
그슥 • (geuseuk)
- (dialectal, colloquial) A vague placeholder noun used like 거시기 (geosigi), meaning roughly “thing”, “whatchamacallit”.
See also
Further reading
- 거시기, 표준국어대사전 (Standard Korean Language Dictionary), 국립국어원. – Standard dictionary entry for 거시기 (geosigi).
- 박근영 (2000), “거시기의 문법화” (“The grammaticalization of 거시기”), 한국어 의미학. – Detailed study of 거시기 (geosigi) as a discourse marker. 0
- 이봉선 (1998), “국어 담화표지 ‘거시기’의 의미분석” (“Semantic analysis of the Korean discourse marker 거시기”), 현대문법연구. 1