单词 | goober |
释义 | goobern. U.S. 1. The peanut, Arachis hypogæa. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible nuts or nut-trees > [noun] > peanut mani1604 pindar1684 earthnut1714 groundnut1740 ground-pea1796 peanut1802 goober1833 monkey nut1880 1833 Louisville Publ. Advt. 7 Nov. A few bags Gouber Pea, or Ground Pea [for sale]. 1834 Cherokee Phoenix (New Echota, Georgia) 24 May 3/4 But he so seam I frade of he, I guess he steal my goober. 1848 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1847 190 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (30th Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 54) VI The ground pea of the south, or as it is sometimes called, the gouber or pindar pea. 1871 M. Schele de Vere Americanisms (1872) 57 The peanuts or earth~nuts known in North Carolina and the adjoining States as Goober peas, so that during the late Civil War a conscript from the so-called ‘piney woods’ of that State was apt to be nick-named a Goober. 1885 U.S. Cons. Rep. No. liv. 382 From the handling of our orchard crops to raking goobers out of the ground, there is probably [etc.]. 1887 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 31 Dec. 2/4 Hogs that had been fed on acorns and goobers. 1888 Cent. Mag. 36 770/2 Peanuts, known in the vernacular as ‘goobers’. 2. With capital initial. A Georgian or North Carolinian. colloquial. ΚΠ 1863 L. N. Boudrye Hist. Rec. Fifth N.Y. Cavalry (1868) 339 Conscripts..from Mississippi state and ‘Goobers’ from Tar river. 1871 M. Schele de Vere Americanisms (1872) 57 The peanuts or earth-nuts known in North Carolina and the adjoining States as Goober peas, so that during the late Civil War a conscript from the so-called ‘piney woods’ of that State was apt to be nick-named a Goober. Compounds Goober-grabbler n. colloquial = sense 2. ΚΠ 1869 Overland Monthly 3 129 A Georgian is popularly known in the South as a ‘Gouber-grabbler’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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