Potato Germans
English edit
Etymology edit
Calque of Danish Kartoffeltyskere, in reference to the cultivation of potatoes in the areas they settled.
Noun edit
Potato Germans pl (plural only)
- (historical) A group of German families who settled in the heathlands of central Jutland in Denmark during the mid-1700s.
- 2017, Andrew DJ Shield, Immigrants in the Sexual Revolution: Perceptions and Participation in Northwest Europe, Springer, →ISBN, page 23:
- Then there were the French Huguenot tobacco farmers (early 1700s), the “Potato Germans” and paid German soldiers (late 1700s), and Moravian crafts people (late 1700s).
Translations edit
German settlers in Jutland
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