PEANUT


Meaning of PEANUT in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

peanut butter

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

butter

She says that the badgers eat worms, slugs, and peanut butter sandwiches.

While Peter Pan may not flit around offering free peanut butter , low-cost foreign peanut growers do offer us their crops.

The son was looking directly ahead out of the window stuffing himself with bread and peanut butter and strawberry jam.

She dipped her carrot into the peanut butter as she went to the door.

Jack didn't feel much like eating, but to please her he swallowed toast and peanut butter .

With wooden spoon, cream butter and peanut butter until smooth, add sugar and cream well.

It's you who will get peanut butter over here.

He once paid his sister $ 300 to make him a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

oil

Add the peanut oil , then add the dumplings, pleated edge up, in a single layer.

When it is very hot, add remaining 2 tablespoons peanut oil .

Groundnut or peanut oil is similar in character and uses to sunflower and grapeseed oils but is rather more expensive.

Heat the peanut oil in a wok and add the scallion-garlic mixture.

The best alternative is peanut oil which is light but fairly full-flavoured.

After wiping the wok, add peanut oil and reheat until smoking hot.

■ VERB

eat

Our hypothetical Ann could eat her packet of peanuts , for example, if she added three half-hour swims to her weekly routine.

But the whiff of a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich makes my stomach quail. Eat peanuts or suffer death-by-a-thousand cut5?

For one thing, telling a lie is like eating peanuts .

Said she liked to walk in the rain and eat peanut butter-and-banana sandwiches.

You could hear them eating , hear the chomp, chomp, chomp when they ate the peanuts we were throwing them.

The Percys ate their peanuts one by one, patiently dislodging the insects.

They stand around and talk produce and eat boiled peanuts .

In the evening I might eat peanuts and drink a beer, or open a can of red beans.

make

We had to make a ring out of peanut dough.

He once paid his sister $ 300 to make him a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

They also make marvellous peanut feeders for the birds in winter.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

salted peanuts

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

He noticed, as she sliced the bread and spread it clumsily with peanut butter, that her hands were shaking.

Remove from heat and beat in sugars, syrup, eggs, milk and peanuts.

Savoy Crunch peanuts are coated in a crispy shell in smoked bacon or sweet and sour flavours.

The peanut program allows only farmers with a federal quota to grow peanuts for the domestic market.

The whole business seemed to have shrunk in importance to the size of a peanut anyway.

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