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peanut

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See also: pea nut, pea-nut, and Peanut

English

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Etymology

From pea + nut, perhaps a folk etymology of pinda, pinder (still found in Southern US dialects).

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Noun

peanut (plural peanuts)

  1. A legume resembling a nut, the fruit of the plant Arachis hypogaea, native to South America.
    He always liked eating peanuts along with tea before biscuits came into his life.
  2. (US) Synonym of countneck (very small hard clam).
  3. (in the plural) See peanuts (very small amount).

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Verb

peanut (third-person singular simple present peanuts, present participle peanutting, simple past and past participle peanutted)

  1. (transitive) To pull on somebody's tie as a prank, causing the knot to tighten.

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Danish

Etymology

From English peanut.

Noun

peanut c (singular definite peanutten, plural indefinite peanuts)

  1. peanut

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