Origin:
1690–1700; perhaps via Dutch or Neo-Latin < Japanese shōyu, earlier shaũyu < Middle Chinese, equivalent to Chinese jìngyóu soybean oil
1690–1700; perhaps via Dutch or Neo-Latin < Japanese shōyu, earlier shaũyu < Middle Chinese, equivalent to Chinese jìngyóu soybean oil
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Word Origin & History
soy
1679, saio "sauce for fish, made from soybeans," from Du. soya, from Japanese soyu, variant of shoyu "soy," from Chinese shi-yu, from shi "fermented soy beans" + yu "oil." Etymology reflects Dutch presence in Japan long before English merchants began to trade there. Soybean is attested from 1795. Soyaburger
is attested from 1953.
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Soy
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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It is chicken rice cooked over high heat in copious amount of soy and oyster sauce.
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