English Explanatory Dictionary

potato

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A plant of species Solanum tuberosum or its edible starchy tuber.
  2. A sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
  3. A conspicuous hole in a sock or stocking.
  4. A person or animal shaped like a potato, that is, with a large belly and/or short legs.
  5. Metaphor for a person or thing of little value.
  6. A mentally handicapped person.
  7. A camera that takes poor-quality pictures or videos.
  8. An underpowered computer or other device, especially when small in size.
verb
  1. To hit very hard; to pummel.
  2. To hit with a thrown or fired potato.
intj
  1. The rhythmic sound produced by a V-twin engine—a distinctive deep, throaty exhaust note.

Pronunciation

pə-tāʹtō /pəˈteɪ.təʊ/ En-uk-potato.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Nattes à chat-potato.wav /pəˈteɪ.toʊ/ [-ˈteɪ.ɾoʊ] en-us-potato.ogg /pɵˈʈaʈo/ /pɵˈʈeʈo/ /poˈteɪ.to/ /pəˈteto/

Word forms

potato potatoes potatoe p'tater tater potatoing potatoed

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish patata, itself borrowed from Taíno batata (“sweet potato”).

Synonyms

Donovan earthapple murphy bog orange Irish apricot Irish fruit mickey toaster p'tater spud tater tatie tator

Derived words

air potato air-potato all that and a bag of potato chips almond potato Amandine potato Andean potato Andean potato latent virus Andean potato mottle virus Andean potato weevil Anna potatoes baked potato baking potato bastard potato Bengal potatoes Bintje potato blue potato boiling potato Bordet-Gengou potato blood agar Brazilian potato tree Burbank potato Burbank Russet potato Canarian wrinkly potatoes Caribe potato Carolina potato chat potatoes chef's potato Chilean potato-tree Chilean potato vine Chinese potato chipped potato clean potato cold-potato routing coleus potato(Coleus rotundifolius) Colorado potato beetle couch potato country potato Cree potato Cuban sweet potato Delmonico potato desk potato drop like a hot potato duchess potatoes duchesse potatoes duck potato Eskimo potato false potato beetle fauxtato fingerling potato finger potato fondante potato fondant potato frafra potato French-fried potatoes french fried potato French-fried potato giant potato creeper glasshouse and potato aphid glasshouse-potato aphid Goa potato Greenfield potatoes
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