fauxtato
Syllables: faux·ta·toUK/fəʊˈteɪtəʊ//foʊˈteɪtoʊ/
fauxtato noun: cauliflower when used as an alternative to potatoes by followers of a low-carbohydrate diet.
Noun
fauxtato (countable and uncountable, plural fauxtatoes)
- Cauliflower when used as an alternative to potatoes by followers of a low-carbohydrate diet.
- One recipe is to smash cauliflower and mix it with butter and cream to make mashed almost-potatoes. […] For the first week of the Atkins diet I walked around in a zombie-like state occasionally mumbling to myself. “Meat good.” “Bread bad.” “Got fauxtato?”2004 June 17, J.W. Shults, “Please pass the fauxtatoes”, in Woodford County Journal, volume 138, number 25, Eureka, Ill., →OCLC, page 4A, column 5
Forms of fauxtato
| plural | fauxtatoes |
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Origin of fauxtato
Blend of faux (“artificial, fake”) + potato.
Words that rhyme with fauxtato
Questions about fauxtato
- What does fauxtato mean?
- Fauxtato means cauliflower when used as an alternative to potatoes by followers of a low-carbohydrate diet.
- What part of speech is fauxtato?
- Fauxtato is a noun.
- How do you pronounce fauxtato?
- Fauxtato is pronounced /fəʊˈteɪtəʊ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of fauxtato?
- The plural of fauxtato is fauxtatoes.
Words near fauxtato in the dictionary
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