potatophile

potatophile noun: a lover of potatoes.

Noun

potatophile (plural potatophiles)

(rare) A lover of potatoes.
- DEAR Home Lover: In response to a request published in your column last week, signed “Irish,” I am sending you one of my favorite potato recipes.[…]POTATOPHILE.1928 January 25, “Potatophile”, “More about Potatoes”, in The Border Cities Star, volume 19, number 122, Windsor, Ont., page seven, column 6
- Germany lost the last war on potatoes. Are we going to try to win this one on the same faithless vegetable (asks a correspondent)? There are some signs that potatophiles expect us to.1940 February 28, “Miscellany”, in “Lucio”, editor, The Manchester Guardian, number 29,152, section “A Bas Les Spuds!”, page 4, column 7

[…]is it necessary to distinguish between the potatophile’s expenditure[…]1964, Food Processing Industry, IPC Consumer Industries Press, page 3:
I give it to you by permission of my dear friend and fellow potatophile, Hilde Grumer.1965, Sonya Richmond, “Germany”, in International Vegetarian Cookery, New York, N.Y.: Arco Publishing Company, Inc., published 1972 (fourth...

plural	potatophiles
alternative form	potato-phile

From potato + -phile.

What does potatophile mean?: Potatophile means a lover of potatoes.
How do you use potatophile in a sentence?: […]is it necessary to distinguish between the potatophile’s expenditure[…]
What part of speech is potatophile?: Potatophile is a noun.
What is the plural of potatophile?: The plural of potatophile is potatophiles.

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