Usage note
[회화]
A: 어제가 대보름이었는데 부럼 많이 깨 먹었어요?
B: 부럼이 뭐예요?
A: 정월 대보름날 아침에 먹는 잣, 호두, 밤, 땅콩 같은 견과류를 말하는 거예요.
B: 그날 왜 그걸 먹나요?
A: 우리 조상들은 부럼을 자기 나이 수대로 깨물면 1년 동안 부스럼에 걸리지 않고 만사가 뜻대로 잘 된다고 믿었대요.
A: Yesterday was the first full moon of the year by the lunar calendar. Did you eat a lot of bureom?
B: What is bureom?
A: Bureom are nuts, such as pine nuts, chestnuts, peanuts, and walnuts, eaten on the 15th morning of the first month of the lunar calendar.
B: Why do you eat them on that day?
A: A: Our ancestors believed that if you crunch them as many times as your age, you will not get any sores in the coming year and everything would go well.
Source:ET-house 능률 한영사전