peanuts

See also: Peanuts, pea nuts, and pea-nuts

English

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpiːnʌts/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpiˌnʌts/
Audio (GA) (file)
Hyphenation: pea‧nuts

Noun

peanuts

plural of peanut

Noun

peanuts pl (plural only)

(informal, figurative) Especially of a salary: a very insufficient or small amount.
Synonyms: pittance, trifle

It’s a fun job, but it pays peanuts.

Derived terms

if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys

Descendants

→ German: Peanuts

Translations

very insufficient or small amount

Catalan: quatre rals, quatre xavos
Finnish: suolarahat pl
German: Peanuts (de) f pl, für einen Apfel und ein Ei
Japanese: 雀の涙 (ja) (すずめ-の-なみだ, suzumu-no-namida)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: peanuts pl, en slikk og ingenting
Persian: ^{(please verify)} پول ناچیز (puli nâčiz) (Dari)
Russian: гроши́ (ru) m pl (groší), копе́йки (ru) f pl (kopéjki)
Spanish: calderilla (es), cuatro cuartos, cuatro duros
Swedish: spottstyver (sv) c, struntsumma c
Turkish: üç kuruş

Verb

peanuts

third-person singular simple present indicative of peanut

Anagrams

unpaste, untapes

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