Talk:peanut

To peanut a tie

It seems barely attestable in writing, but there's a slang verb (at least in the UK; it was used at my school and can be seen in a few Google Books results too). "Peanutting" somebody's tie is pulling on it so that the knot becomes very tight and compact (like a peanut). Equinox ◑ 21:33, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Oh yes definitely, blimey, that takes me back a bit! Mglovesfun (talk) 21:34, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Now added. Equinox ◑ 20:24, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Not from Icelandic or Hungarian!

The mention "Originally called ground nut (akin to Icelandic jarðhneta, German Erdenuss, Hungarian földimogyoró" in the Etymology section led to the erroneous inclusion of this page in the categories "Words derived from Icelandic/German/Hungarian". It is absurd to think that a plant of Mexican origin would bear a name of Icelandic or Hungarian origin, or that a word would have three different origins simultaneously; and the word "akin" was in fact improperly used here to mean "parallel" or "similar" (in fact the European denominations may well have been copied from the English). certainly not that the English word was from Icelandic. In its proper sense, e. g. English earth akin to Islandic jörð, "akin" means that two words have the same origin, in this case Proto-Germanic *erþō I have made the corresponding corrections. --Zxly (talk) 13:26, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

• I moved all that to (deprecated template usage) groundnut. It really has nothing to do with this entry. Ƿidsiþ 13:30, 27 April 2013 (UTC)