tater
English
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editEtymology
editRepresenting an aphetic pronunciation of potato. Compare patater (“potato”), 'mater (“tomato”), and 'naner (“banana”).
Pronunciation
edit- (British) IPA(key): /ˈteɪtə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) enPR: tāʹtər, IPA(key): /ˈteɪtɚ/
- Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Noun
edittater (plural taters)
- (British, US, informal) A potato.
- We ate them taters up real good.
- 1884, Hiram Bigelow, Family Companion, letter, quoted in Dictionary of Americanisms, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, page 198:
- I went into the dining-room, and sot down afore a plate that had my name writ on a card onto it; and I did walk into the beef and 'taters and things about east.
- 2022 June 12, Lauren Daley, “How to eat through Blackstone Valley in a weekend”, in Boston Globe:
- For sandwiches, you might sink your teeth into a Cape Cod reuben with crispy cod, Swiss and coleslaw with tater tots or sweet potato fries, fried chicken and waffle sandwich with maple aioli, or bacon jam burger — maple bourbon bacon jam, gorgonzola, fried egg, arugula, tomato.
- 2023 December 20, Eric Kim, “A Creamy, Melty Potato Casserole That’s Outrageously Easy to Make”, in The New York Times Magazine[1]:
- While Linder prefers his taters cut skinny, as they are in restaurant iterations of the dish, his co-author, the television chef Johanna Westman, says she prefers them thick, as in her Grandma Alva’s recipe.
- (US, baseball, slang) A home run.
- 2013 July 29, Richard Goldstein, “George Scott, Slugger Who Boomed ‘Taters’ in Fenway, Dies at 69”, in The New York Times[2]:
- Playing 14 seasons in the major leagues, the right-handed-batting Scott was a three-time All-Star and hit 271 home runs, or taters, as he called them.
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editNorwegian Bokmål
editNoun
edittater m (definite singular tateren, indefinite plural tatere, definite plural taterne)
- (sometimes offensive) a Scandoromani person, a Traveller Norwegian (a kind of Norwegian Gypsies)
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editEtymology
editProbably related to the etnonym of Tatars or Tartary. Compare Swedish tattare.
Noun
edittater m (definite singular tateren, indefinite plural taterar, definite plural taterane)
- (sometimes offensive) a Scandoromani person, a Traveller Norwegian (a kind of Norwegian Gypsies)
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