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potato peelings

potato peelings

1.5
Thin strips of potato skin you fry until crisp and eat as a snack
  • noun
  • /pəˈteɪtoʊ ˈpiːlɪŋz/
translation icon : cáscaras de patata
  • Instead of throwing away the potato peelings, she decided to use them for a tasty side dish.

Examples

  • When preparing dinner, she saved the potato peelings to make a crispy snack.

  • "They fed us potato peelings," Dutch said.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • He tossed the potato peelings into the fryer to create a delicious garnish for the dish.

Synonyms

potato skin
vspotato peelings
  • US
2 2.1

A crisp shell of potato peel fried or baked and topped with melted cheese and bacon

is focused on thin fried strips used as snack or garnish
peeling
vspotato peelings
1 1.0

The outer skin that you remove from a fruit or vegetable

is a prepared thin fried strip rather than just removed outer skin
potato peel
vspotato peelings
1.7

A thin fried strip of potato skin eaten as a snack

is similar but refers specifically to thinner strips or garnishes

Surface Forms

potato peelings singular
potato peelings plural

Morphology

potato + peeling

The meaning 'thin strips of potato skin' is directly and compositionally derived from 'potato' (the vegetable) + 'peeling' (skin removed from fruit/vegetable). This straightforward noun–noun construction is common across languages and follows literal culinary usage, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.

Etymology

Potato peelings comes from the kitchen act of peeling a potato, when the thin pieces of skin, the peelings, are left behind and often fried until crisp and eaten. So, potato peelings now means 'thin strips of potato skin', especially when fried and served as a 'snack' or 'garnish'.