What does 멍멍이 mean?
멍멍이 (meongmeongi) means: doggy, puppy.
Formed by taking the onomatopoeia for a dog's bark ('멍멍') and adding the friendly noun suffix '-이'. Children learn these sound-based animal names long before they learn the standard adult words like '개' (dog).
How it's actually used
- 저기 귀여운 멍멍이 지나간다!
Look, a cute doggy is walking past!