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Bintje

/ˈbɪnt͡ʃə/

Bintje noun: a kind of potato produced in the Netherlands.

bintje: a kind of potato produced in the Netherlands
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Noun

Bintje (plural Bintjes)

  1. A kind of potato produced in the Netherlands.

Forms of Bintje

pluralBintjes

Origin of Bintje

From Dutch Bintje, diminutive of the name Benedictus. The potato was first produced in 1904 by Kornelis Lieuwes de Vries, a Frisian schoolmaster, and named after one of his pupils, a young woman named Bintsje Jansma (spelled with the Frisian diminutive suffix -tsje). (It was common practice in the Netherlands to use a diminutive form of male nicknames for women.)

Questions about Bintje

What does Bintje mean?
Bintje means a kind of potato produced in the Netherlands.
What part of speech is Bintje?
Bintje is a noun.
How do you pronounce Bintje?
Bintje is pronounced /ˈbɪnt͡ʃə/.
What is the plural of Bintje?
The plural of Bintje is Bintjes.

Words near Bintje in the dictionary

  1. Binswanger
  2. Binswangerian
  3. bint
  4. bintangor
  5. bintangors
  6. Bintje
  7. Bintjes
  8. Binton
  9. bintree
  10. bintrees
  11. bints

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