tatern.
/ˈteɪtə/, U.S. /ˈteɪdər/ = potato n. 2.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > potato
potato root1583
potato1597
Irish potato1664
pratie1749
earth apple1750
Murphy1750
tater1759
tatie1788
tattiec1800
pomme de terrec1810
potato tuber1844
spud1845
nav1893
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > potato
potato root1583
pratie1749
Murphy1750
tater1759
pomme de terre1776
Irish apricot1785
tatie1788
tattiec1800
spud1845
aloo1916
1759 L. Wood Jrnl. 27 May in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1882) XIX. 65 We travelled..9 miles to Capt Curtises and there we Dined upon codfish and taters.
1815 Sporting Mag. 45 2 A piece of taters or a few turnips.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. xiv. 224 Officers who boil their 'tators in a cabbage-net hanging in the ship's coppers.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xiv. 55 Baked 'taturs.
1884 Good Words May 333/2 The other man..plied a vigorous trade in 'taters and trotters.
1911 F. H. Burnett Secret Garden xxiv. 252 Anything'll grow for him. His 'taters and cabbages is twice th' size of anyone else's.
1939 F. Thompson Lark Rise i. 11 Mother spent hours boiling up the ‘little taturs’.
1943 W. Stevens in O. Williams New Poems 1943 236 (title of poem) No possum, no sop, no taters.
1977 New Yorker 27 June 76/3 I et 3 lbs. of taters.
Compounds
C1. attributive and in other combinations.
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1845 W. T. Porter Big Bear of Arkansas 22 Them ar ‘Indian mounds’ ar tater Rills.
1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. iii. 34 He draws his furrer ez straight ez he can, An' into nobody's tater-patch pokes.
c1869 T. Taylor & A. W. Dubourg in M. R. Booth Eng. Plays of 19th Cent. (1973) III. 303 The coal and 'tatur shed where he worked all the week.
1902 W. N. Harben Abner Daniel 198 I got up on the head of a tater-barrel behind the counter.
1930 Dial. Notes 6 89 Tater jack, variety of fermented liquor, made in [lumber] camp from potatoes.
C2.
tater-trap n. slang = tattie-trap n. at tattie n. Compounds 2.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [noun]
moutheOE
billa1000
munc1400
mussa1529
mouc1540
gan1567
gob1568
bouche1582
oven1593
taster1596
Pipe Office1609
neba1616
gab1681
gam1724
mouthpiece1738
potato-trap1785
potato-jaw1791
fly-trapc1795
trap1796
mouthie1801
mug1820
gin-trap1824
rattletrap1824
box1830
mouf1836
bread trap1838
puss1844
tater-trap1846
gash1852
kissing trap1854
shop1855
north and south1858
mooey1859
kisser1860
gingerbread-trap1864
bazoo1877
bake1893
tattie-trap1894
yap1900
smush1930
gate1937
cakehole1943
motormouth1976
pie hole1983
geggie1985
1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 133/2 Tater trap, the mummer, mouth.
1876 I. Banks Manch. Man III. i. 12 Shut up his tater-trap fur him!
1890 P. H. Emerson Wild Life 38 I adwised them fellers at the pub ter keep their tater-traps shut.
1917 H. H. Richardson Fortunes Richard Mahony I. i. ii. 20 From the back of the hall came the curt request to him to shut his ‘tater-trap’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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