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sandbugger

sandbugger noun: a patty made from cooked potatoes, seasoned with onions, and fried.

Noun

sandbugger (plural sandbuggers)

  1. (Southern US) A patty made from cooked potatoes, seasoned with onions, and fried.
    • He was torn between his desire for more biscuits and another sand-bugger and the knowledge, born of painful experience, that if he ate them, he would suddenly have no room for pone.1938, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, chapter 1, in The Yearling, New York: Scribner, published 1970, page 12

Forms of sandbugger

pluralsandbuggers
alternative formsand-bugger

Questions about sandbugger

What does sandbugger mean?
Sandbugger means a patty made from cooked potatoes, seasoned with onions, and fried.
What part of speech is sandbugger?
Sandbugger is a noun.
What is the plural of sandbugger?
The plural of sandbugger is sandbuggers.

Words near sandbugger in the dictionary

  1. sandboxing
  2. sandboy
  3. sandboys
  4. sandbreak
  5. sandbreaks
  6. sandbugger
  7. sandbuggers
  8. sandbur
  9. sandburr
  10. sandburrower
  11. sandburrs

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