peanuts

See also: Peanuts, pea nuts, and pea-nuts

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpiːnʌts/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpiˌnʌts/

• Audio (General American):

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• Hyphenation: pea‧nuts

Noun

peanuts

1. plural of peanut

Noun

peanuts pl (plural only)

1. (informal, figurative) Especially of a salary: a very insufficient or small amount.

   Synonyms: pittance, trifle

   It’s a fun job, but it pays peanuts.

Derived terms

• if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys

Descendants

• → German: Peanuts

Translations

very insufficient or small amount

• Catalan: quatre rals, quatre xavos
• Finnish: suolarahat pl
• German: Peanuts (de) f pl, für einen Apfel und ein Ei
• Japanese: 雀の涙 (ja) (すずめ-の-なみだ, suzumu-no-namida)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: peanuts pl, en slikk og ingenting

• Persian: ^{(please verify)} پول ناچیز (puli nâčiz) (Dari)
• Russian: гроши́ (ru) m pl (groší), копе́йки (ru) f pl (kopéjki)
• Spanish: calderilla (es), cuatro cuartos, cuatro duros
• Swedish: spottstyver (sv) c, struntsumma c
• Turkish: üç kuruş

Verb

peanuts

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of peanut

Anagrams

• unpaste, untapes