peanut bar
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- noun
- /ˈpiːnʌt bɑːr/
- After lunch, I enjoyed a peanut bar as a sweet treat.
Examples
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I bought a delicious peanut bar at the local candy shop.
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Salted Peanut Bars
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She wrapped a peanut bar in a napkin for a snack later.
Synonyms
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A sweet made of chocolate or sugar that you eat as a snack
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A sweet snack of nuts and sugar on a thin baked base cut into bars
How Chewy
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'peanut' + 'bar' — a bar-shaped food item made from or containing peanuts. The use of 'bar' to denote a rectangular confection (as in chocolate bar, granola bar) is common and cross-linguistically familiar, so a B1 learner who knows both words would likely infer the meaning.
Etymology
The name peanut bar comes from the simple idea of mixing peanut pieces with a sticky sweet and pressing them into a bar shape for an easy snack. That's why the name means 'a sweet made of peanuts in a bar form'.