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Definition: POTATOES |
POTATOESPlural1. Of Potato |
Date "POTATOES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | Dreaming of potatoes, brings incidents often of good. To dream of digging them, denotes success. To dream of eating them, you will enjoy substantial gain. To cook them, congenial employment. Planting them, brings realization of desires. To see them rotting, denotes vanished pleasure and a darkening future. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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Potatoes
Solanum tuberosumThe potato (Solanum tuberosum) is a perennial tuber of the Solanaceae, or nightshade, family, which is one of the most widely used vegetables in Europe and North and South America. There are six other species of Solanum of minor importance. There are thousands of varieties of potato in cultivation.
The potato is unrelated to the sweet potato. In the United States it is sometimes referred to as the "Irish Potato" to distinguish it.
History
The potato plant is thought to be native to the Andes and cultivated originally by the Inca and other Pre-Columbian people of the region, spreading over time throughout other Native American groups and becoming a staple food.In the 16th century, the Spaniards introduced it to the rest of the world. The name "Potato" came from the Spanish word "patata" (the original quechua word was "papa"). Many other European languages took forms of this Spanish name. In the Americas, the word "papa" is more used in the Spanish language than "patata".
It has long been popularly taught that Sir Walter Raleigh was responsible for bringing the potato to England, but historians now believe that this is a myth, as Raleigh only went to North America where the first potatoes apparently did not appear until the 18th century. Sir Francis Drake is more likely to be responsible. In 1586, after battling the Spaniards in the Caribbean, Drake stopped at Cartagena in Colombia to collect provisions - including tobacco and potato tubers. Before returning to England he stopped at Roanoke Island, where the first English settlers had been attempting to set up a colony. The pioneers returned to England with Drake, along with the potatoes.
By 1650 potatoes were the staple food of Ireland, and they began to replace wheat as the major crop elsewhere in Europe, being used to feed both people and animals. The first mention of potatoes appearing in North America comes from Irish settlers in Londonderry, New Hampshire during 1719.
Augustin Parmentier is said to have popularised it in France in the 18th century, after his captivity in Prussia.
The potato was such an important food to the Irish that it is permanently associated with them today in the popular imagination, due to a single devastating event - the Irish potato famine. In the 1840s there was a major outbreak of potato blight, which swept through Europe, wiping out the potato crop in many countries. The Irish economy was so dependent on a single variety of potatoes as a staple at this time that the event led to terrible disease, death, famine, and subsequently emigration by many of the survivors to areas where there was more food. The blight marks an important, though tragic, point in Irish history.
Other theories that accept the possibility of pre-Columbian transatlantic contacts, attribute an earlier date of the very limited existence of potato in the Old World and Asia.
Varieties
Potatoes come in brown, yellow, pink, red, and purple (sometimes called "blue"). Their flesh may be white or colored like the skin. Small types are called "fingerling" or "new" potatoes, larger potatoes are often distinguished as "earlies" or "main crop", with the "main crop" being varietes that will store well. Individual varieties may be labeled "boiling", indicating that they retain some shape when boiled, "baking" indicating that they only hold their shape if baked, "roasting", indicating that they are flavoursome when roasted, "salad" to indicate that they are suitable for salad use (often firm and waxy fleshed when boiled), or "mashing" to indicate that when mashed they form a smooth consistency neither fibrous nor grainy.Some common North American varieties are:
In the United States the term "Idaho potato" is often used, but does not denote a variety, but simply an origin in Idaho, that country's principal potato-growing region.
- Burbank Russet - large, brown skin, white-fleshed, developed by Luther Burbank
- Yellow Finn - small, with yellow skin and flesh
- Red Gold - red skin, yellow flesh
- German Butterball - a yellow fingerling
- Yukon Gold - yellow skin and flesh
Some common British varieties are:
- Maris Piper - a good general purpose white main crop potato, not suitable for salads though
- King Edward - the best roasting potato, often served with the Sunday Roast, white main crop
- Desiree - a red skinned main crop potato, a favourite with allotment holders because of disease resistance
- Jersey Royal - a salad new potato, grown on the island of Jersey and in Spain
- Pink Fir - a pink salad new potato which grows in irregular shapes
- Golden Wonder - famous Scottish frying potato used to make crisps
"Potato harvesting" by the Swedish painter Carl Larsson (1853-1919)
Food value
Potatoes have a high carbohydrate content and include protein, minerals (particularly potassium, calcium) and vitamins, including vitamin C. More vitamin C is found in freshly harvested potatoes than potatoes that have been stored.Potatoes also contain glycoalkaloids, toxic compounds, of which the most prevalent are solanine and chaconine. These are partly destroyed by cooking at high temperatures. Glycoalkaloid concentrations are highest just underneath the skin of the tuber and increase with age and exposure to light. Glycolakloids may cause headaches, diarrhea, cramps and in severe cases coma and death. Light exposure also causes greening, thus giving a visual clue as to areas of the tuber that may be toxic, however, this is not a definitive guide as greening and glycoalkaloid accumulation can occur independently of each other. Some varieties of potato contain greater glycolalkaloid concentrations than others; breeders developing new varieties test for this, and sometimes have to discard an otherwise promising cultivar.
A benefit of new and fingerling potatoes is that they contain less solanine, so that the nutrients under the skin need not be lost. Such potatoes are an excellent source of nutrition. Peeled, long-stored potatoes fried by fast-food establishments have less nutritional value although they still have potassium and vitamin C.
Potatoes can be prepared for eating in numerous ways, either with their skin on or peeled, whole or cut into pieces, and with seasonings or without. All that is required is that they be cooked to break down the starch and make them edible. Potatoes are generally eaten hot, but several basic potato recipes involve cooking the potatoes and then eating them cold - potato salad and potato chips. One of the commonest presentation methods is 'mashed potatoes'. These are peeled, boiled then mashed and mixed with butter, cream, or other seasonings before serving. Potatoes can also be baked whole; cut into cubes and roasted; grated and formed into dumplings or potato pancakes; and cut into long, thin pieces and fried or baked (French fries, called "chips" in the UK).
Potatoes also provide starch, flour, alcohol (when fermented), dextrin, and livestock fodder.
Cultivation
Potato plants are low-growing and have white flowers with yellow stamens. They grow best in cool, moist climates such as Maine, Idaho, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Germany, Russia, and Poland, though they are widely adaptable and are grown on a small scale in most temperate regions.
The tubers are covered with buds called "eyes". Common varieties of potatoes do not produce seeds; the flowers are sterile. Instead, they are propagated by planting pieces of existing tubers, cut to include at least one eye. Confusingly, these pieces are called "seed potatoes".
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(Larger)The 1881 Household Cyclopedia adds:
Ground Preparation
To reduce the ground till it is completely free from root-weeds, may be considered as a desiderutum in potato husbandry; though in many seasons these operations cannot be perfectly executed, without losing the proper time for planting, which never ought to be beyond the first of May, if circumstances do not absolutely interdict it. Three ploughings, with frequent harrowings and rollings, are necessary in most cases before the land is in suitable condition. When this is accomplished form the drills as if they were for turnips; cart the manure, which ought not to be sparingly applied, plant the seed above the manure, reverse the drills for covering it and the seed, then harrow the drills in length, which completes the preparation and seed process.
Seed Quantity
It is not advantageous to cut the seed into small slips, for the strength of the stem at the outset depends in direct proportion upon the vigor and power of the seed-plant. The seed plant, therefore, ought to be large, rarely smaller than the fourth-part of the potato; and if the seed is of small size, one-half of the potato may be profitably used. At all events, rather err in giving over large seed than in making it too small because, by the first error, no great loss can ever be sustained; whereas, by the other, feeble and late crop may be the consequence. When the seed is properly cut, it requires from ten to twelve hundredweight of potatoes to plant an acre of ground, where the rows are twenty seven inches apart; but this quantity depends greatly upon the size of the potatoes used; if they are large, a greater weight may be required, but the extra quantity will be abundantly repaid by the superiority of crop which large seed usually produces.
Raising Methods
The earth should be dug twelve inches deep, if the soil will allow it; after this, a hole should be opened about six inches deep, and horse-dung or long litter should be put therein, about three inches thick; this hole should not be more than twelve inches in diameter. Upon this dung or litter a potato should be planted whole, upon which a little more dung should be shaken, and then the earth should be put thereon. In like manner the whole plot of ground must be planted, taking care that the potatoes be at least sixteen inches apart. When the young shoots make their appearance they should have fresh mould drawn around them with a hoe; and if the tender shoots are covered, it will prevent the frost from injuring them; they should again be earthed when the shoots make a second appearance, but not covered, as in all probability the season will be less severe.A plentiful supply of mould should be given them, and the person who performs this business should never tread upon the plant, or the hillock that is raised round it, as the lighter the earth is the more room the potato will have to expand.
A gentleman obtained from a single root, thus planted, very nearly forty pounds weight of large potatoes, and from almost every other root upon the same plot of ground from fifteen to twenty pounds weight; and, except the soil be stony or gravelly, ten pounds or half a peck of potatoes may generally be obtained from each root by pursuing the foregoing method.
But note--cuttings or small sets will not do for this purpose.
Storing
Potatoes are generally dug up with a three-prong grape or fork, but at other times, when the weather is dry, the plough is used, which is the most expeditious implement. After gathering the interval, the furrow taken by the plough is broken and separated, in which way the crop may be more completely gathered than when taken up by the grape. The potatoes are then stored up for winter and spring use; and as it is of importance to keep them as long through summer as possible, every endeavor ought to be made to preserve them from frost, and from sprouting in the spring months. The former is accomplished by covering them well with straw when lodged in a house, and by a thick coat of earth when deposited in a pit, and the latter, by picking them carefully at different times, when they begin to sprout, drying them sufficiently by exposure to the sun, or by a gentle toast of a kiln.
Ireland Cultivation
The drill system, in the cultivation of potatoes in Ireland, is particularly recommended by Lord Farnham, in a letter to Sir John Sinclair. The small farmers and laborers plant them in lazy-beds, eight feet wide. This mode is practised on account of the want of necessary implements for practicing the drill system, together with a want of horses for the same purpose.They are cut into sets, three from a large potato; and each set to contain at least one eye. The sets are planted at the distance of seven inches asunder, six and a quarter cwt. are considered sufficient seed for an English acre. Lord Farnham recommends rotten dung in preference to any fresh dung. If not to be procured, horse-dung, hot from the dunghill. In any soil he would recommend the dung below the seed.
When the potatoes are vegetated ten inches above the surface, the scuffler must be introduced, and cast the mold from the potato. If any weeds are found in the drills they must be hand-hoed; in three days afterwards they must be moulded up by the double-breasted plough, as high as the neck of the potato. This mode must be practiced twice, or in some cases three times, particularly if the land is foul. I do not (says Lord Farnham) consider any mode so good as the drill system.
General Observation
To prepare for the drill system either oat or wheat stubble, it should be ploughed in October or the beginning of November; to be ploughed deep and laid up for winter dry. In March let it be harrowed, and give it three clean earths. Be very particular to eradicate the couch grass. The drills to be three feet asunder; drill deep the first time that there is room in the bottom of the furrow to contain the dung. The best time to begin planting the potatoes is about the latter end of April by this system. It is as good a preparation for wheat as the best fallows.Three feet and a half for drills are preferable to four feet. Mr. Curwen prefers four feet and a half. He says the produce is immense. Potatoes ought to be cut at least from two to three weeks before being planted; and if planted very early whole potatoes are preferable to cut ones, and dung under and over. Some agriculturists lately pay much attention to raising seedling potatoes, with the hope of renewing the vigor of the plant.
Early potatoes may be produced in great quantity by resetting the plants, after taking off the ripe and large ones. A gentleman at Dumfries has replanted them six different times in one season, without any additional manure; and, instead of falling off in quantity, he gets a larger crop of ripe ones at every raising than the former ones. His plants have still on them three distinct crops, and he supposes they may still continue to vegetate and germinate until they are stopped by the frost. By this means he has a new crop every eight days, and has had so for a length of time.
Recipes
- Potato recipes
- Potato and cabbage soup
- Potato salad
- Potatoes on the half-shell
- Bengal Potatoes
References
- Reference for potato history: The Vegetable Ingredients Cookbook by Christine Ingram, Lorenz Books, 1996 ISBN 1859672647
- The History and Social Influence of the Potato by Redcliffe N. Salaman ISBN 0521316235
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Potato."
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Screenplays | These mashed potatoes are so creamy (While You Were Sleeping; writing credit: Daniel G. Sullivan; Fredric LeBow) There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth) And then those three bags of potatoes we lifted last week, and, and, the mushrooms, the week before (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh) Potatoes au gratin (City Slickers; writing credit: Lowell Ganz; Babaloo Mandel) That's a lotta potatoes. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) | |
Lyrics | We'll be french fried potatoes by and by. (We Will All Go Together When We Go; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
Clever | Idaho: More Than Just Potatoes ... Well Okay, We're Not, But The Potatoes Sure Are Real Good (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Two Sacks of Potatoes (1913) Undressed Serving Potatoes (1902) Hot Potatoes (2002) Small Potatoes (2001) Rice & Potatoes (1998) | |
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 | Shown is a small plate with a serving of mashed potatoes. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |  | (5) color slides show potatoes cooked in different ways. (1) baked potato plain, (1) baked potato with butter, (1) mashed potatoes plain, (1) mashed potatoes with butter, (1) mashed potatoes with gray. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |
 | Clean-tilled potatoes. Credit: James Luzader. |  | The 13-year-old daughter of a sharecropper planting sweet potatoes. Person county, NC. July 1939. Credit: USDA. |
 | Plowing up sweet potatoes. Laurel, MS. November 1938. . Credit: USDA. |  | A field of potatoes is cultivated on a farm in Fairbanks, Alaska. Credit: USDA. |
 | Separating rocks and other debris from potatoes during harvest near. Credit: USDA. |  | Potatoes at a farmers market. Credit: USDA. |
 | Over 100 center-pivot sprinklers controlled by a central computer irrigate wheat, alfalfa, potatoes, and melons along the Columbia River near Hermiston, Oregon. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Doug Wilson.. |  | Yes, Americans do love their spuds! We each eat about 125 pounds of them a year, about half from fresh potatoes and half in processed foods. Research has brought forth a slew of new, improved potato varieties for both uses. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
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| "Diner" by Marlon Bruin Commentary: "Potatoes, beans, sausage and salat." | "Pringles" by João Estêvão A. De Freitas Commentary: "Potatoes." |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Life, the Universe and Everything | Douglas Adams | It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He dined on bread and potatoes. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He could not eat the blackish fish fritters they got on Wednesdays in Lent and one of his potatoes had the mark of the spade in it. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Rose of Sharon kept her eyes resentfully on the potatoes. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | A little bread or a few potatoes would have done as well, with less trouble and filth |
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Health | Instant potatoes, soups, and breakfast drinks. (references) | |
Starches are consumed in the form of pastas, breads, potatoes, rice, and other foods. (references) | ||
Bananas, oranges, potatoes, and peach and apricot nectars are good sources of potassium. (references) | ||
Economic History | Chile | Forestry, agriculture, and fisheries (8.3% of GDP): Products--wheat, potatoes, corn, sugarbeets, onions, beans, fruits, livestock, fish. (references) |
Jamaica | The Jamaican consumer market, with a mean per capita consumption expenditure of J$ 69,740 (USD 1533), provides excellent opportunities for products such as potatoes, soft drinks and juices, frozen bakery products, fish, meat, poultry and salad dressing. (references) | |
Pakistan | Minor crops - Minor crops account for only 5 percent of total cultivated area; these include oilseeds (sunflower, soybean, safflower) chilies, pulses, potatoes, and onions. (references) | |
Political Economy | Nepal | Principal crops include rice, wheat, maize, jute, and potatoes. (references) |
THAILAND | Corn and fresh potatoes are subject to a Tariff Rate Quota (TRQ) that limits import levels. (references) | |
CANADA | Canada applies various restrictions to imports of supply-managed products (dairy and poultry), as well as fresh fruit and vegetables, potatoes, and processed horticultural products. (references) | |
Trade | Costa Rica | Opponents of freer agricultural trade have attempted to block imports of some domestically sensitive items, such as rice, potatoes and onions. (references) |
Korea | Soybeans, corn and soybean sprouts are subject to this regulation, with potatoes to be added as of March 2002. (references) | |
Mauritius | The following state enterprises control the import of several commodities: State Trading Corporation (rice, wheat flour, petroleum, cement), Agricultural Marketing Board (products that compete with domestic produce, e.g potatoes and onions), Tea Board, Tobacco Board and the Mauritius Sugar Syndicate. (references) | |
Travel | Nicaragua | Outside of the capital, the local diet consists of chicken, beef, fish, rice, beans, plantains and potatoes. (references) |
Nicaragua | Nacatamal: a tamale made of corn stuffed with rice, pork or chicken, potatoes, tomatoes, among other ingredients. (references) | |
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Andrew Weil | You eat lots of fruits and vegetables, you include some of the good carbohydrates, which are things like beans and some sweet potatoes or winter squashes in moderation, even some whole grains like wild rice or barley in whole grain form. |
Julia Child | Well, I love baked potatoes with lots of butter. Very often a baked potato is one of the safest things to eat. Say, in a hospital where the food is pretty bad, they can usually do a baked potato perfectly well. |
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Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | For years, we've mostly treated citizens like they were consumers or spectators, sort of political couch potatoes who were supposed to watch the TV ads, either promise them something for nothing or play on their fears and frustrations. |
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| "POTATOES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 99.88% of the time. "POTATOES" is used about 1,647 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 99.88% | 1,645 | 5,065 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.06% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.06% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,647 | N/A |
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Expressions using "POTATOES": baked potatoes ♦ black leg of potatoes ♦ blackleg of potatoes ♦ boiled potatoes ♦ Chat potatoes ♦ dig potatoes ♦ french fried potatoes ♦ fried potatoes ♦ hashed brown potatoes ♦ hot potatoes ♦ mash potatoes ♦ mashed potatoes ♦ new potatoes ♦ shoestring potatoes ♦ small potatoes ♦ think oneself no small potatoes. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "POTATOES": potatoes-in-a-bag. | |
Ending with "POTATOES": meat-and-potatoes. | |
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| Language | Translations for "POTATOES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pure patatesh (mashed potatoes). (various references) | |
Arabic | بطاطس مهروسة باللبن و الزبدة (mashed potatoes). (various references) | |
Basque | patatekin (with potatoes). (various references) | |
Breton | avaloù-douar. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | картофено пюре (mashed potatoes). (various references) | |
Chinese | 土豆 (Potato). (various references) | |
Czech | brambory (spuds). (various references) | |
Danish | kartofler (potato). (various references) | |
Dutch | puree (mashed potatoes), voorradrooiers leggen de uitgeworpen aardappels in rijen naast het trekkerspoor (potato diggers delines the lifted potatoes into rows to the side of the trailer's tracks), uit proeven in vitro met Engels raaigras,tomaten en aardappels bleek dat stijging van het loodgehalte van de grond een enorme stijging van het loodgehalte van de wortels tot gevolg had,maar dat schlechts een klein gedeelte van het lood in de overige plant (but that only small amounts reach the other parts of the plant, test tube experiments with perennial ryegrass, tomatoes and potatoes showed that the lead content of the roots increases enormously with an increase in the lead content of the soil), stomer met daaraan bevestigde aardappelsnijder waarin de hete,gestoomde aardappelen worden gestort door omkippen van de stomer (steamer with attached pulper that can be filled by tipping the hot steamed potatoes into it), onderwerken en onbruikbaar maken voor menselijke consumptie van aardappelen (burying and denaturing of potatoes), machine voor het verwijderen van slechte aardappelen (chat removing machine, machine for removing refuse potatoes, potato cleaner), fritessaus (sauce for fried potatoes), eenvoudige aardappelsorteermachines voorzien van draadzeven met vierkante mazen sorteren de aardappelen naar maat en vorm (simple potatoe sorters with square meshed sieves divide the potatoes according to size and form), aardappelpuree (mashed potatoes). (various references) | |
Esperanto | terpoma kaĉo (mashed potatoes). (various references) | |
Finnish | perunasose (mashed potatoes), keittää perunat kuorineen (boil potatoes in their skins). (various references) | |
French | pommes de terre (potato). (various references) | |
Frisian | pomp (mashed potatoes, pump), ierappelpomp (mashed potatoes). (various references) | |
German | Kartoffeln (potato). (various references) | |
Greek | γεώμηλα, πατάτεσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | rósejbni (chipped potatoes, chips, crisps, french fries, fried potatoes), krumplit szed (to lift potatoes), hasábburgonya (chipped potatoes, chips, crisps, french fries), burgonyaforgács (chipped potatoes). (various references) | |
Irish | fataí (of potatoes). (various references) | |
Italian | patate (potato). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 芋堀り (digging for potatoes), 石焼き芋 (sweet potatoes baked in hot stones or pebbles), 新ジャガ (new potatoes), 壺焼き (shellfish cooked in its own shell, sweet potatoes cooked in a crock). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しんジャガ (new potatoes), つぼやき (shellfish cooked in its own shell, sweet potatoes cooked in a crock), いしやきいも (sweet potatoes baked in hot stones or pebbles), いもほり (digging for potatoes, potato field). (various references) | |
Korean | 감자 (Potato). (various references) | |
Luganda | lumonde (sweet potatoes). (various references) | |
Luxembourgish | gromperen. (various references) | |
Manx | spollagyn praase (chip potatoes), praasyn broit (boiled potatoes), praaseyn ushtoil (soapy potatoes), praaseyn sheel (seed potatoes), praaseyn lahnit (mashed potatoes), praaseyn gyn lhoamey (jacket potatoes), praaseyn broojit (mashed potatoes), carnane praaseyn (clamp of potatoes). (various references) | |
Mohawk | ohnennàta. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | otatoespay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | batatas (praties). (various references) | |
Romanian | pireu de cartofi (mash, mash potatoes, mashed potatoes), cartofi prãjiţi (fried potatoes), cartofi piure (mashed potatoes), cartofi noi (new potatoes), cartofi la cuptor (baked potatoes). (various references) | |
Russian | картофель (murphy, potato, praties, spuds). (various references) | |
Scottish | buntàta (potato, potatoes regarded collectively). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pire od krompira (mashed potatoes). (various references) | |
Spanish | pl. de potato, patatas (potato). (various references) | |
Swedish | potatis (potato, pratie, yam). (various references) | |
Turkish | patates püresi (mashed potatoes), patates kızartması (chip, chips, french fried potatoes, french fries, fried potatoes), püre (mash, mashed potatoes, puree), ufak tefek şey (small potatoes), kendini kafdağında görmek (think oneself no small potatoes), kendini beğenmek (feel one's oats, think one is the cat's pyjamas, think one is the cat's whiskers, think oneself no small potatoes), küçük dağları ben yarattım demek (think oneself no small potatoes), kızarmış patates (fried potatoes), başa çıkılması zor tip (hot potatoes), çetin ceviz (hard case, hard core, hard nut to crack, hot potatoes, tartar), ıvır zıvır (chaff, crap, dead wood, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, gadget, gadgetry, gadgety, gewgaw, Gubbins, junk, knick knack, knickknack, nicknack, odds and ends, rubbish, small potatoes, trifles, trinket, trinkets). (various references) | |
Turkmen | kartoюka (r). (various references) | |
Xhosa | amazambane. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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"POTATOES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: optatives, Patates, patatoes, pettitoes, Pittakos, potahtoes, Potamos, potapoes, potatoe, potatoey, potatos, potaytoes, putatoes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "POTATOES" (pronounced putā"tōz) |
| 4 | -ā" t ō z | tomatoes. |
| 3 | -t ō z | Altos, autos, contos, concertos, ghettos, mementos, mosquitoes, mosquitos, mottos, stilettos, vetoes. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-o-o-p-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: teapots. | |
-2 letters: aptest, potato, pottos, sapote, teapot. | |
-3 letters: estop, ottos, paseo, paste, pates, peats, pesto, petto, poets, potto, psoae, septa, spate, state, stoae, stoat, stoop, stope, stopt, tapes, taste, tates, teats, tepas, testa, toast, toeas, toots, topes, topos, totes. | |
-4 letters: apes, apse, ates, atop, east, eats, epos, etas, oast, oats, oops, oots, opes, opts. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-o-o-p-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: osteopath, patooties. | |
+2 letters: apostolate, osteopaths, osteopathy, phototaxes, protonates, somatotype, statoscope, toothpaste, tropotaxes, vaporettos. | |
+3 letters: apostolates, osteopathic, osteoplasty, photostated, portamentos, somatotypes, statoscopes, toothpastes, trapshooter. | |
+4 letters: autotrophies, bootstrapped, deportations, exportations, operationist, orthopterans, osteopathies, osteoplastic, outpopulates, photostatted, postneonatal, potentiators, protestation, protoplanets, shatterproof, steatopygous, trapshooters. | |
+5 letters: contemplators, cotransported, exploitations, expostulation, expostulatory, extrapolators, hypothecators, interpolators, metropolitans, operationists, optionalities, osteoplasties, paleobotanist, photocathodes, photomontages, photosynthate, planetologist, postdoctorate, postoperative, postvasectomy, potentiations, prognosticate, prostatectomy, protectorates, protestations, protonotaries, sexploitation, streptococcal, tachistoscope. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Images: Digital Art 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Quotations: Spoken 11. Quotations: Speeches 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Expressions 14. Translations: Modern 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Bibliography |
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