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Bintje.

A kind of potato produced in the Netherlands.

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Meaning & usage

noun/ˈbɪnt͡ʃə/
  1. A kind of potato produced in the Netherlands.

Where this word comes from

From Dutch Bintje, diminutive of the name Benedictus. The potato was first produced in 1904 by Kornelis Lieuwes de Vries, a Frisian schoolmaster, and named after one of his pupils, a young woman named Bintsje Jansma (spelled with the Frisian diminutive suffix -tsje). (It was common practice in the Netherlands to use a diminutive form of male nicknames for women.)

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