Bintje

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/ˈbɪnt͡ʃə/

noun

A kind of potato produced in the Netherlands.

OriginDutch Bintje →
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Meanings

nounBintje (plural Bintjes)

plural Bintjes

  1. A kind of potato produced in the Netherlands.

Origin

  1. DutchBintje
  2. EnglishBintje

From Dutch Bintje, diminutive of the name Benedictus. The potato was first produced in 1904 by Kornelis Lieuwes de Vries, a Frisian schoolmaster, and named after one of his pupils, a young woman named Bintsje Jansma (spelled with the Frisian diminutive suffix -tsje). (It was common practice in the Netherlands to use a diminutive form of male nicknames for women.)

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