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Peanut   /pˈinət/  /pˈinˌət/   Listen
Peanut

noun
1.
Underground pod of the peanut vine.
2.
Widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions; showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground.  Synonyms: Arachis hypogaea, peanut vine.
3.
A young child who is small for his age.
4.
Pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; 'groundnut' and 'monkey nut' are British terms.  Synonyms: earthnut, goober, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut.
adjective
1.
Of little importance or influence or power; of minor status.  Synonym: insignificant.  "Peanut politicians"



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"Peanut" Quotes from Famous Books



... "You don' know? I'm goin' buy beeg stan'! Candy! Peanut! Banan'! Make some-a-time four dollar a day! 'Tis a greata countra! Bimaby git a store! Ride a buggy! Smoke a cigar! You play piano! Vote ...
— In the Arena - Stories of Political Life • Booth Tarkington
... forehead in the gesture meant to register great mental agony, while his face was split with that nearly famous comedy grin of his. "Serves you right," he flung hack at her in his normal tone of brotherly condescension. "The way you fell for that nut, like you was a starved squirrel shut up in a peanut wagon, by gosh! Hope you're bogged down in jawbreakers the rest of the summer. Serves yuh right, but you needn't think you can take it out on me. And," he draped himself around the door jamb to add pointedly, "you should worry about ...
— Starr, of the Desert • B. M Bower
... as he closed the door once more. "I'll wager an apple against a peanut that he thought he would catch Dave, Roger, and ...
— Dave Porter and His Rivals - or, The Chums and Foes of Oak Hall • Edward Stratemeyer
... quiet place. I see Randolph every day. He seems very curious to know where you are. I think he is disturbed because you have found employment elsewhere. He professes to think that you are selling newspapers in New York, or tending a peanut stand, adding kindly that it is all you are fit for. I have heard a rumor that he was often to be seen playing billiards at Tony Denton's, but I don't know whether it is true. I sometimes think it would do him good to become a poor boy and have ...
— Struggling Upward - or Luke Larkin's Luck • Horatio Alger
... grow up big and strong, just like his daddy." She put her cheek against the sleeping babe's and looked up sidewise at the two standing above her. "But I know how you feel," she said to her husband. "When they first showed him to me, I thought he looked like a peanut a thousand ...
— The Riverman • Stewart Edward White


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