sticky rice

sticky rice
 n.โ€” ยซThe young Office Ladies found the cityโ€™s gay men so cute, they latched on to their club scene. But now the โ€˜sticky rice girlsโ€™ have come unstuck.…A new phenomenon emerged: the okoge. The closest English translation is fag hag, but this doesnโ€™t do justice to the expression. Okoge is a culinary term, referring to those irritating grains of rice that stubbornly glue themselves to the bottom of the pot.ยป โ€”โ€œSayonara to Tokyoโ€™s camp followers” by Richard Lloyd Parry Independent (Londong, England) May 30, 1995. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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