먹다
meokda · TOPIK 1
to eat
🍚🥄 meok sounds like muck: muck in and eat; -da is just the dictionary ending
The stem is 먹 (meok), close to English muck, as in muck in, a British way of saying dig into food. Every Korean dictionary verb ends in 다 (da), so only meok carries the meaning eat. Same stem appears in mukbang, an eating broadcast.