English Explanatory Dictionary

Potato Germans

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A group of German families who settled in the heathlands of central Jutland in Denmark during the mid-1700s.

Word forms

Potato Germans

Etymology

Calque of Danish Kartoffeltyskere, in reference to the cultivation of potatoes in the areas they settled.

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