kartoffel

plural kartoffeln · plural kartoffels

1. rareA potato.

   I’ll shplit dem like kartoffels: […]

   1868, Charles G[odfrey] Leland, “Breitmann in Battle”, in Hans Breitmann’s Party. With Other Ballads., Philadelphia, Pa.: T. B. Peterson & Brothers; […], page 7

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   During this interval the farmer missed the potatoes and came up the street in search of the miscreant who carried them away, when he espied boy No. 2, and without demanding any explanation the old man proceeded to wallop the youth, saying, “What for you steal my kartoffeln; I show you.”

   1890 August 20, “Boys Will Be Boys”, in D. M. Frost, L. A. Lauber, editors, The Globe-Republican, volume XIII, number 43, Dodge City, Kan.: Globe-Republican Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page [5], column 4

   “How commonplace you are! As if the Goddess of every German did not live in the kitchen and spend her very soul in making him fat. Your Katinka will have no second idea beyond kartoffeln and pickled cabbages!” / He looked down a little shyly, yet smiling. / “But she will love me, and the kartoffeln and cabbages shall be but her care of me. Love has a thousand voices, yet are they not lowly or despised.”

   1900 May, Ellen A. Smith, “The Price of an Inspiration”, in The Argosy, volume LXXI, London, →OCLC, page 67

   One man who reported that the occasion was the first time he had ever attended the races or bet on a horse in his life confessed to having donated forty kartoffels to the cause.

   1957, News and Views, General Motors Acceptance Corporation, page 15

   Neighbors roasted chestnuts, kartoffels and bratwurst, raised steins of black beer and stamped over the floorboards of the tiny apartment.

   1980, T[homas] Coraghessan Boyle, “Rock & Roll Heaven”, in Joe David Bellamy, editor, Moral Fiction: An Anthology, Canton, N.Y.: Fiction International, →ISBN, page 42

   At the end of his speech and knowing what the Kriegies’ diet had been, he turned to the cooks and said “OK, start serving the kartoffels and turnips.”

   2003, Trailblazer, volumes 61–63, 70th Infantry Division Association, page 10