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potet.

a potato (plant and vegetable)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Norsk bokmål language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. a potato (plant and vegetable)

    masculine
    bakt potet
    en varm potet
  2. whitey (derogatory term used to refer to ethnic Norwegians, mostly by allochthone populations)

    derogatory · ethnic · masculine · slang · slur
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Danish potet, from English potato, from Spanish patata, from Taíno batata. In Denmark it was displaced by German kartoffel, which never established itself in Norway. Both words stem from the 18th century when the potato first became common in Scandinavia.

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