string bean

English

Alternative forms

• stringbean, string-bean

Noun

string bean (plural string beans)

1. Any long, slender green bean.
   • 1963, Bob Dylan (lyrics and music), “Talkin' World War III Blues”, in The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan:

     Well, I rung the fallout shelter bell / And I leaned my head and I gave a yell / “Give me a string bean, I’m a hungry man” / A shotgun fired and away I ran

   1. A common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris)
   2. An immature runner bean (Phaseolus coccineus)
   3. A yardlong bean (Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis)
   4. A hyacinth bean ()
2. (figuratively) A tall and thin person.
   • 1925, Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith, New York: New American Library, 1961, Chapter 15,^[1]

     My way o’ doing things suits me, and I don’t figure on changing it for you or any other half-baked young string-bean.

   • 1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint, New York: Vintage, 1994, p. 31,^[2]

     She was once a tall stringbean of a girl whom the boys called “Red” in high school.

Derived terms

• stringbeany

Translations

A long, slender variety of green bean

• Arabic:

  Moroccan Arabic: لوبيا خضرة (lūbya ḵaḍra)

• Armenian: թելով լոբի (tʻelov lobi)
• Brunei Malay: kacang buncis
• Greek: αμπελοφάσουλο (el) n (ampelofásoulo)
• Italian: fagiolino (it) m
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• Malay: kacang buncis
• Maltese: fażola twila f
• Polish: fasolka szparagowa (pl) f
• Romanian: fasole lunguiață f, fasole verde f
• Russian: стручко́вая фасо́ль (stručkóvaja fasólʹ), волокни́стая фасо́ль (voloknístaja fasólʹ)
• Spanish: vainica f (Costa Rica)
• Tagalog: ayap, paayap

tall and thin person

• Finnish: kukkakeppi (fi)
• French: échalas (fr) m
• Italian: spilungone (it) m
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• Polish: dryblas (pl) m
• Portuguese: trinca-espinhas m or f
• Romanian: lungan (ro) m, găligan (ro) m
• Russian: жердь (ru) (žerdʹ)

common bean — see common bean

runner bean — see runner bean

yardlong bean — see yardlong bean

hyacinth bean — see hyacinth bean

References

• string bean on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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