different between potato vs stovies

English

Alternative forms

• potatoe (obsolete)
• p'tater, tater (dialectal or informal)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish patata, itself borrowed from Taíno batata.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??te?.t??/, [p???t?e?t???]
• (General American) enPR: p?-t??t?, IPA^(key): /p??te?.to?/, [p???t?e??o?], [p???t?e???]
• Rhymes: -e?t??

Noun

potato (plural potatoes)

1. The tuber of a plant, Solanum tuberosum, eaten as a starchy vegetable, particularly in the Americas and Europe; this plant.
2. (informal, Britain) A conspicuous hole in a sock or stocking
3. Metaphor for a person or thing of little value.
   1. (slang, offensive) A mentally handicapped person.
   2. (humorous) A camera that takes poor-quality pictures.
   3. (humorous, slang, computing) An underpowered computer or other device, especially when small in size.

Synonyms

• (plant): p'tater (dialectal), spud (slang), tater (Britain, US, informal), tatie (Scotland, Cumbria, dialect), tator (eye dialect)
• (vegetable): Donovan (archaic slang), earthapple (rare), murphy, bog orange (obsolete slang), Irish apricot (obsolete slang), Irish fruit (obsolete slang), mickey

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

potato (comparative more potato, superlative most potato)

1. (computing, slang, humorous, of a computing device) Underpowered; low-end.

Anagrams

• patoot, topato

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English potato.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po?ta.to/, /p??ta.t?/

Noun

potato (plural potati)

1. potato

   Synonym: terpomo

Italian

Verb

potato m (feminine singular potata, masculine plural potati, feminine plural potate)

1. past participle of potare

Anagrams

• optato

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /po??ta?.to?/, [po??t?ä?t?o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /po?ta.to/, [p??t???t??]

Verb

p?t?t?

1. second-person singular future active imperative of p?t?
2. third-person singular future active imperative of p?t?

Quotations

English

Etymology

From a blend of stoved (“stewed”) + tatties (“potatoes”).(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Source? Why not just from stove + the common Scottish -ie diminutive?”)

Noun

stovies pl (plural only)

1. A traditional Scottish dish of stewed potatoes and onions with cold meat.
   • 1975, Amy Stewart Fraser, Dae Ye Min? Langsyne?: A Pot-Pourri of Games, Rhymes, and Ploys of Scottish Childhood, page 203,

     At home, after the fun of Dookin? for Apples was over we sat round a huge dish of delicious stovies, which had cooked very slowly on the top of the stove in a covered pan, with salt and pepper and knobs of butter. Threepenny bits and charms were hidden in the stovies.

   • 2008, Alan Bews, One Boy?s Dinner Please, page 44,

     During the winter months my granny always made me stovies on a Saturday and she would spoon them on top of the hot pie and I would sit at a table in front of the fire eating contentedly and thinking about the films I had seen that morning. Stovies, as my grandmother made them, were potatoes and onions cut into pieces and cooked slowly in a pan with only a covering of water at the bottom of the pan, a tablespoonful of roast beef dripping and some salt and pepper. They were delicious.

   • 2012, Jessie Macquarrie, Camus Calling, AuthorHouse UK, page 8,

     They accepted her offer graciously, not having a clue what ‘stovies’ might be. Meg soon explained that stovies was a traditional hearty scots meal made from potatoes, onions and left over meat served as a stew.

Anagrams

• Soviets, soviets, sovites