tater

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See also: tatér, tâter, and Täter

English

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Etymology

Representing an aphetic pronunciation of potato. Compare patater (“potato”) and 'mater (“tomato”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈteɪtə/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • (US) enPR: tāʹtər, IPA(key): /ˈteɪtɚ/
  • Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

tater (plural taters)

  1. (British, US, informal) A potato.
    We ate them taters up real good.
  2. (US, baseball, slang) A home run

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

tater m (definite singular tateren, indefinite plural tatere, definite plural taterne)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

tater m (definite singular tateren, indefinite plural taterar, definite plural taterane)

  1. (sometimes offensive) a Scandoromani person, a Traveller Norwegian (a kind of Norwegian Gypsies)

References

  • “tater” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
  • “tater”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016
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