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peanut

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

English

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Peanuts

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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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

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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

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Etymology

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From English peanut.

Noun

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peanut c (singular definite peanutten, plural indefinite peanuts)

  1. peanut

Inflection

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Declension of peanut
common
gender
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative peanut peanutten peanuts peanuttene
genitive peanuts peanuttens peanuts' peanuttenes

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