potatoes
Saypuh-TAY-tohz/pəˈteɪtoʊz/UK/pəˈteɪtəʊz/
- 1Plural of potato. Use this form when you mean more than one potato.
We peeled a whole sack of potatoes for the stew.
The potatoes in the cellar had started to sprout.
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- 2The form of potato used in the present with he, she, it, or a singular noun such as the dog or water.
In wrestling, a careless fighter sometimes potatoes his partner with a real punch.
If he potatoes another wrestler again, the promoter says he will be fired.
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- 3Plural of potatoe, an old, mistaken way of writing potato.
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potatoes is a form of potato
potato, noun: A starchy vegetable that grows underground and is cooked to eat, or the plant it grows on. Full entry
- Forms
- potatopotatoes plural
- Spelling
- potato → potatoes: add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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