See also: pea nut and pea-nut

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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peanut (plural peanuts)

  1. A legume resembling a nut, the fruit of the plant Arachis hypogaea, native to South America.
  2. (US) A very small clam.
  3. (in the plural) See peanuts (very small amount).

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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.

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peanut c (singular definite peanutten, plural indefinite peanuts)

  1. peanut

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