dica

n. a digital camera, most commonly as part of a mobile phone. Also dika. Subjects: English, South Korea, Technology

Etymological Note: From digital camera.

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Citations: 2003 Tom Sloper @ South Korea Tom Sloper’s ATTBI page (Nov. 27) “A Little Bit Of Seoul”: Earny’s “dica” (digital camera) did a great job capturing the shaded interior details of this traditional house. 2003 Chun Su-jin (Joins.com) (Dec. 31) “Top most popular items for 2003—phone cameras to historical fiction”: Cell phones with digital cameras a also known as dica a are Korea’s top-selling consumer electronics product. 2004 Jin-Suk Huh Dong-A Ilbo Daily (South Korea) (June 21) “The Way Digital People Live”: Take Your “Dica” When Leaving for Vacations—Office worker Sohn Soo-jin (26, female) takes so many pictures that she considers her digital camera as a “diary.” 2005 Ines Cho JoongAng Daily (Seoul, South Korea) (Jan. 18) “The words of a new generation”: Dicajok People who take their digital cameras everywhere. (“Dica” is short for “digital camera”; jok refers to a group of people. 2005 [dda] Joe Ito’s Web (June 2) “Korean Bloggers”: Every kid in Korea has a mobile phone with a “dika” [digital camera]. 2005 Ritwik Sinha MobileMag (Sept. 1) “Pantech Introduces PG-8000 Digital Camera, MP3 and Radio Phone”: The new phone resembles what in popular parlance is dubbed as the “dica look” or a digital camera. 2005 Jon Herskovitz @ Seoul, South Korea Boston Globe (Mass.) (Oct. 21) “North and South divided by common Korean language”: For example, the English term “digital camera” is called “dika” (pronounced dee-ka) in South Korea.

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