potato

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/pəˈteɪ.təʊ/

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Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

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What was that about potatoes? Were they just a thing from foreign parts, like coffee; a luxury, an extra? Oh, the potato is a lordly fruit; drought or downpour, it grows and grows all the same. It laughs at the weather, and will stand anything; only deal kind...
Do not let your child have potato for another year; he will probably take milk well enough after he is weaned.
The protein value of this dish is equal to that of 1⅛ pounds of potato and beef, the fuel value, however, being much in excess of these.

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Do not let your child have potato for another year; he will probably take milk well enough after he is weaned.
1891, “Condensed Replies to Various Letters”, in Leroy M[ilton] Yale, editor, Babyhood: The Mother’s Nursery Guide, Devoted to the Care of Children, volume VII, New York, N.Y.; Lo...
The protein value of this dish is equal to that of 1⅛ pounds of potato and beef, the fuel value, however, being much in excess of these.
1912, C[harles] F[ord] Langworthy, Caroline L[ouisa] Hunt, Cheese and Its Economical Uses in the Diet (Farmers’ Bulletin 487), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 2...
Yvonne and Lee Swee potatoed Deputy Lestrade multiple times before Sheriff Moran potatoed them both. […] Suddenly, Sheriff Moran heard the click click of an empty weapon. He turned to see that both Mayor Eliza and Kat had run out of ammunition.
2017, A. J. Low, Sherlock Sam’s Orange Shorts: Special Edition
A number of the children said that they had potato for breakfast, potato and herring for dinner, potato and milk for supper.
1915, Annual Report of the Local Government Board for Scotland, page 17
Although the potato actually has no exciting value, it was believed, in the seventeenth century, to possess definite aphrodisiac qualities, and is frequent mentioned in this respect in Elizabethan drama.
1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 195

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Borrowed from Spanish patata, itself borrowed from Taíno batata (“sweet potato”).