goober pea
- noun
- /ˈɡuːbər piː/
- US
:
cacahuete
- After a long hike, we sat down to enjoy a bowl of goober peas as a tasty snack.
Examples
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Eatin' goober peas
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Eatin' goober peas
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There's meager nourishment in these lines; even some Goober peas would satisfy the hungry reader more.
Academic text (2007) -
Children love to snack on goober peas during the summer picnics.
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The farmer harvested fresh goober peas and sold them at the local market.
Synonyms
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1.0
A small seed that grows in a pod underground and is eaten as a snack
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8.9
A peanut in its shell that usually has two seeds
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6.1
A peanut that is still in its shell, often with two nuts inside
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3.0
A small shell from the peanut plant that holds two nuts often eaten as a snack
The pod of the peanut plant that holds the edible nuts
Small peanuts often eaten as a snack
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is directly compositional: 'goober' (a peanut or peanut pod) combined with 'pea' (a small seed) points to a peanut/peanut pod. Although 'goober' is regional and 'pea' is technically a different crop, the naming pattern for legumes is familiar cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Goober pea comes from an African word for the peanut that was brought to America, and the second part pea was used because the nut grows in a small pod like a pea, so today goober pea means 'peanut'.