chili-missó

Macanese

Alternative forms

• chile-miçó, chíli-missó

Etymology

Literally, “chili miso”.

Noun

chili-missó

1. chili paste, chili sauce (spicy Chinese condiment prepared with chile, vinegar and soybean paste)

Usage notes

• Nowadays used to describe Cantonese 辣椒醬／辣椒酱 (laat⁶ ziu¹ zoeng³).

References

• Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “chile-miçó”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 366
• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#chilimisso