peanut
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 6
/ˈpiːnʌt/
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/ˈpiːnʌt/ · /ˈpiˌnʌt/
Definition of peanut
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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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.”
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noun
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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.”
- (US)Synonym of countneck (“very small hard clam”).
- (in-plural)See peanuts (“very small amount”).
verb
- (transitive)To pull on somebody's tie as a prank, causing the knot to tighten.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From pea + nut, perhaps a folk etymology of pinda, pinder (still found in Southern US dialects).
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