Where does “배꼽시계” come from?

배꼽시계 (Korean) comes from Korean 시계(時計).

배꼽시계 (Korean): the time to get hungry

Definitions

  1. the time to get hungry

Ancestry of “배꼽시계”, step by step

배꼽시계 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Korean 시계(時計)

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Korean시계(時計)—

via Korean 배꼽

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Korean배꼽navel remnant of umbilical cord
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