kartoffel

Definition

A potato.

Etymology

From German Kartoffel.

Example Sentences

• "I’ll shplit dem like kartoffels: […]"
• "During this interval the farmer missed the potatoes and came up the street in search of the miscreant who carried them away, when he espied boy No. 2, and without demanding any explanation the old man proceeded to wallop the youth, saying, “What for you steal my kartoffeln; I show you.”"
• "“How commonplace you are! As if the Goddess of every German did not live in the kitchen and spend her very soul in making him fat. Your Katinka will have no second idea beyond kartoffeln and pickled cabbages!” / He looked down a little shyly, yet smiling. / “But she will love me, and the kartoffeln and cabbages shall be but her care of me. Love has a thousand voices, yet are they not lowly or despised.”"