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TOPIK 5noun

때밀이

ttaemiri [때미리]

때밀이가 · 때밀이를

body scrubbing; bathhouse scrubber

Example

때밀이 아주머니께 등을 밀어 달라고 했어요.

I asked the scrubbing lady to scrub my back.

Word parts

때 'grime, dead skin' + 밀이 'rubbing' (from 밀다 'to push, to scrub').

Good to know

For the worker, 때밀이 can sound blunt; the polite word is 세신사, and the service is 세신. The rough scrub mitt is 때수건 or 이태리타월.