peanut

• pea nut, pea-nut (obsolete)

From pea +‎ nut, perhaps a folk etymology of pinda, pinder (still found in Southern US dialects).

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pē'nŭt", IPA^(key): /ˈpiːnʌt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpiˌnʌt/

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• Hyphenation: pea‧nut

peanut (plural peanuts)

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

• goober (Southern US slang), goober pea (dated Southern US), monkey nut (UK), pinder (Southern US)

• earthnut, groundnut

• beer nut

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.

• Arachis hypogaea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• peanut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• peanut at USDA Plants database
• peanut at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.

• ante up, ante-up, untape

From English peanut.

peanut c (singular definite peanutten, plural indefinite peanuts)

1. peanut

• jordnød

• “peanut” in Den Danske Ordbog