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nounIrish apricot (plural Irish apricots)
plural Irish apricots
- obsoleteslangA potato.
"Ha! ha!" retorted his opponent, with a malicious grin, "and sugar, Sir, sugar, sugar; will your Irish apricots make sugar? No, no, mangel wurzel is the thing to fatten and improve everything and anything. […]"
1839, John Gideon Millingen, Stories of Torres Vedras, page 140
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