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Peanut

adjective

Of little importance or influence or power; of minor status. Synonym: insignificant. "Peanut politicians"

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"Peanut" Quotes from Famous Books

... I think that no information ever comes amiss in this world. Once or twice I have traveled in the cars—and there you know, the peanut boy always measures you with his eye, and hands you out a book of murders if you are fond of theology; or Tupper or a dictionary or T. S. Arthur if you are fond of poetry; or he hands you a volume of distressing jokes or a copy of the American Miscellany if you particularly ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... to the street where the black-cloaked woman had descended. Of course, he saw nothing of her, but there was a peanut vender of his own race, at the corner. Skystein stopped, bought a bag of peanuts and began to eat them. Casually he asked the merchant if that woman in gray bought peanuts there. The vender didn't seem to comprehend, ...

— The Preacher of Cedar Mountain - A Tale of the Open Country • Ernest Thompson Seton

Words linked to "Peanut" : tyke, nestling, nipper, minor, goober, peanut oil, legume, Arachis, genus Arachis, hog peanut, kid, tiddler, peanut gallery, shaver, child, pod, peanut brittle, small fry, edible nut, tike, fry, groundnut oil, youngster, leguminous plant, seedpod