kartoffel
kartoffel noun: a potato.
Noun
kartoffel (plural kartoffeln or kartoffels)
- A potato.
- I’ll shplit dem like kartoffels: […]1868, Charles G[odfrey] Leland, “Breitmann in Battle”, in Hans Breitmann’s Party. With Other Ballads., Philadelphia, Pa.: T. B. Peterson & Brothers; […], page 7
- During this interval the farmer missed the potatoes and came up the street in search of the miscreant who carried them away, when he espied boy No. 2, and without demanding any explanation the old man proceeded to wallop the youth, saying, “What for you steal my kartoffeln; I show you.”1890 August 20, “Boys Will Be Boys”, in D. M. Frost, L. A. Lauber, editors, The Globe-Republican, volume XIII, number 43, Dodge City, Kan.: Globe-Republican Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page [5]...
Examples of kartoffel in a sentence
- One man who reported that the occasion was the first time he had ever attended the races or bet on a horse in his life confessed to having donated forty kartoffels to the cause.1957, News and Views, General Motors Acceptance Corporation, page 15:
- Neighbors roasted chestnuts, kartoffels and bratwurst, raised steins of black beer and stamped over the floorboards of the tiny apartment.1980, T[homas] Coraghessan Boyle, “Rock & Roll Heaven”, in Joe David Bellamy, editor, Moral Fiction: An Anthology, Canton, N.Y.: Fiction...
- At the end of his speech and knowing what the Kriegies’ diet had been, he turned to the cooks and said “OK, start serving the kartoffels and turnips.”2003, Trailblazer, volumes 61–63, 70th Infantry Division Association, page 10:
- We fried kartoffels, baked kartoffels, boiled kartoffels and really filled ourselves up.[2004], Grandon E. Tolstedt, Stories of the Forties, →OCLC, pages 196 and 200:
Forms of kartoffel
| plural | kartoffeln |
|---|---|
| plural | kartoffels |
Origin of kartoffel
Borrowed from German Kartoffel.
Questions about kartoffel
- What does kartoffel mean?
- Kartoffel means a potato.
- How do you use kartoffel in a sentence?
- One man who reported that the occasion was the first time he had ever attended the races or bet on a horse in his life confessed to having donated forty kartoffels to the cause.
- What part of speech is kartoffel?
- Kartoffel is a noun.
- What is the plural of kartoffel?
- The plural of kartoffel is kartoffeln.
Words near kartoffel in the dictionary
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