존맛 (jonmat)

What it means

1. 1.

   Unbelievably tasty. Very common among young people, and technically obscene — 존 is a clipping of a crude word.

   Most speakers no longer feel the origin, but it is not something to say to a client or an older relative. The initials JMT are the polite dodge.

Examples with translations

• 여기 떡볶이 진짜 존맛이야.

  The tteokbokki here is unreal.

• 이 조합 JMT 인정?

  This combination is elite, agreed?

Where it comes from

From 존나, an intensifier derived from a vulgar term for male anatomy, plus 맛 ('taste'). The same 존 appears in 존예 ('stunning') and 개 serves the same intensifying function more mildly.

Other forms

Romanised as:

jonmat

Spellings and variants:

JMT, 존맛탱