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Peanut

noun

1.

Underground pod of the peanut vine.

2.

Widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions; showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground. Synonyms: Arachis hypogaea, peanut vine.

3.

A young child who is small for his age.

4.

Pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; 'groundnut' and 'monkey nut' are British terms. Synonyms: earthnut, goober, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut.

adjective

1.

Of little importance or influence or power; of minor status. Synonym: insignificant. "Peanut politicians"

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"Peanut" Quotes from Famous Books

... was crippled, and a good many was just kids—bootblacks and newsboys and messengers. Some was working-men in overalls, with their sleeves rolled up. Not one of the gang looked like a stockholder in anything unless it was a peanut stand. But they all had Golconda stock and looked ...

— The Gentle Grafter • O. Henry

... which they reaped a harvest of twenty-six dollars. The following are some of the methods by which they secured this remarkable result. One little girl bought flower-seeds and raised flowers which she sold, and made five dollars from her five cents. Another made candy and sold it. A little boy had a peanut stand, and one little fellow earned his money by "going without things." Could not older people follow his example? It suggests Thoreau's epigram, "Your wealth is measured by the number of things you can go without;" or, better yet, Paul's magnificent words, ...

— American Missionary, Vol. 45, No. 2, February, 1891 • Various

... animal's best good. I don't say but that, if the peanut-boy had come by with his basket, I shouldn't have yielded to my natural weakness and given the little brute a paper of them to bury. He seems to have been rather a saving ...

— Imaginary Interviews • W. D. Howells

... five pencil sketches attached of the new trade figures for Brittlekin—two bloated looking children with inkblot eyes looking greedily at an enormous bar of peanut candy. "Dear Crowe: Will you give me copy on these as soon as possible—something snappy this time.—E. B. D." A memorandum, "Mr. Piper called you 4 P.M. Monday. Wishes you to call him as soon as possible." The United Steel Frame Pulley layouts and another note from Deller, "This is LATE. ...

— Young People's Pride • Stephen Vincent Benet

... flapping that awful rag in his face. "How much do you suppose that God cares what you in your folly swore to that stinkcat of a nephew of yours? Do you be careful, Henri Marais, that God does not make of your precious oath a stone to fall upon your head and break it like a peanut-shell." ...

— Marie - An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain • H. Rider Haggard

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