Korean slang profile
와인냉장고
wainnaengjanggo
Wine refrigerator
A refrigerator made specifically for storing wine.
- Expanded form
- wine + 냉장고wine + 냉장고 (refrigerator)
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- Dec 30, 2002
- Documented trend period
- Not verified
This is the earliest source we have verified, not the date the term was coined.
01Examples, with English translations
- Example by Julimmal
가전 전시회에서 여러 형태의 와인냉장고를 살펴봤다.
I examined various wine refrigerators at the appliance exhibition.
02Documented history
- 2002The 국립국어연구원’s 『2002년 신어』 introduced the spelling and meaning of “와인냉장고”.[1]
03Origin & word formation
An appliance name identifying its purpose of storing wine. This explanation was checked in the 국립국어연구원’s 『2002년 신어』. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The headword, definition, and components were directly compared. The original older articles re-quoted by the source were not separately opened; the date recorded is the publication date directly checked on the collection’s copyright page.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2002년 신어 — 2002년 신어, 47쪽 (국립국어연구원)Published Dec 30, 2002Original source checked Nov 14, 2026