糊

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paste

On-Yomi: コ

Koohii stories:

1) [mantixen] 16-2-2007(42): The uncivilized used rice as paste.

2) [Megaqwerty] 29-6-2007(19): Let the rice age for one month and it becomes an absolutely wonderful paste.

3) [Sam79] 15-7-2011(9): The meaning is starch used as glue to paste things. While in Japan they used to extract that paste from rice (#919 米), in the West old flesh served that purpose. The old flesh of horses and other waste from the slaughterhouse that was boiled to extract gelatin. Seems rather uncivilized (#2470 胡) to me, I like the rice-approach better…

4) [peacemik] 24-8-2011(3): While they were still uncivilized, they used months-old rice to make glue paste. 糊 [のり]: paste; glue; starch 糊口 [ここう]: bare livelihood; subsistence 糊口 [ここう] を 凌 [しの]ぐ: eke out a living.

5) [Neobeo] 17-1-2009(2): My american friend is so uncivilised his staple diet consists of toothpaste rather than rice.

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