Korean

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Etymology

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Of native Korean origin.

후줄근 (hujulgeun, root not found in isolation) +‎ 하다 (-hada, to do, light verb deriving adjectives).

Pronunciation

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Romanizations
Revised Romanization?hujulgeunhada
Revised Romanization (translit.)?hujulgeunhada
McCune–Reischauer?hujulgŭnhada
Yale Romanization?hwucwul.kun.hata

Adjective

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후줄근하다 (hujulgeunhada) (infinitive 후줄근해 or 후줄근하여, sequential 후줄근하니)

  1. (for clothes, etc.) to droop down shabbily and unkemptly
    후줄근한 망토 걸친 망연히 앉아 있는 거지였다.
    Hujulgeun-han mangto-man-eul geolchin chae mang'yeon-hi anja inneun geoji-yeotda.
    He was a beggar sitting blankly, garbed only in a limp and unkempt cape.
  2. (figurative) to be exhausted

Conjugation

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