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Irish apricot

Irish apricot noun: a potato.

Noun

Irish apricot (plural Irish apricots)

  1. (obsolete, slang) A potato.
    • "Ha! ha!" retorted his opponent, with a malicious grin, "and sugar, Sir, sugar, sugar; will your Irish apricots make sugar? No, no, mangel wurzel is the thing to fatten and improve everything and anything. […]"1839, John Gideon Millingen, Stories of Torres Vedras, page 140

Forms of Irish apricot

pluralIrish apricots

Questions about Irish apricot

What does Irish apricot mean?
Irish apricot means a potato.
What part of speech is Irish apricot?
Irish apricot is a noun.
What is the plural of Irish apricot?
The plural of Irish apricot is Irish apricots.

Words near Irish apricot in the dictionary

  1. Irish
  2. Irish acre
  3. Irish acres
  4. Irish American
  5. Irish Americans
  6. Irish apricot
  7. Irish apricots
  8. Irish bacon
  9. Irish banjo
  10. Irish banjos
  11. Irish blight

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