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Tater

noun

An edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland. Synonyms: Irish potato, murphy, potato, spud, white potato.

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"Tater" Quotes from Famous Books

... "Sit down anywhere you like; and just holler through the crack in the floor, under the bearskins there, if you want anything out of the Bocker-shop, below."—("He means Tobacco when he says Bocker," interposed Zack, parenthetically.) "Can you set your teeth in a baked tater or two?" continued Mat, tapping a small Dutch oven before the fire with his toasting-fork. "We've got you a lot of fizzin' hot liver and bacon to ease down the taters with what you call a relish. Nice and streaky, ...

— Hide and Seek • Wilkie Collins

... and humour, and his deep and righteous views of life, and power of hard hitting when he has anything to say which needs driving home—and Father Ezekiel, "the brown parchment-hided old man of the geoponic or bucolic species," "76 year old cum next tater diggin, and thair aint nowheres a kitting" (we readily believe) "spryer 'n he be;" and that judicious and lazy sub-editor, "Columbus Nye, pastor of a church in Bungtown Corner," whose acquaintance we ...

— The Biglow Papers • James Russell Lowell

Words linked to "Tater" : root vegetable, french-fried potatoes, white potato vine, Uruguay potato, home fries, jacket, mashed potato, baked potato, solanaceous vegetable, fries, white potato, Solanum tuberosum, home-fried potatoes, Irish potato, spud, french fries, chips, starches