peanut

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A small oval nut that grows in a pod underground, often eaten roasted or made into butter.

   She ate a handful of salted peanuts while watching the film.

2. 2
   adj

   Very small or unimportant.

   They paid him a peanut salary for all that hard work.

From pea + nut, perhaps a folk etymology of pinda, pinder (still found in Southern US dialects).

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