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potato peel

potato peel

1.7
A thin fried strip of potato skin eaten as a snack
  • noun
  • /pəˈteɪtoʊ pil/
translation icon : cáscara de patata
  • Customers rave about the potato peel chips at this café.

Examples

  • The chef served crispy potato peels as an appetizer.

  • I love eating potato peel chips!

  • The restaurant served delicious potato peels with a spicy dipping sauce.

  • We made a crispy snack from leftover potato peels after dinner.

  • Crispy potato peels make a delicious topping for salads or soups.

  • I enjoyed a bag of seasoned potato peels while watching the game.

  • The chef served potato peels as an appetizer with a spicy dipping sauce.

Synonyms

potato skin
vspotato peel
  • US
2 2.1

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

is a plain single crisp fried strip not a filled or baked appetizer
potato peelings
vspotato peel
1.5

Thin strips of potato skin you fry until crisp and eat as a snack

is a single crisp fried strip served alone as a snack or starter

Surface Forms

potato peel singular
potato peels plural

Morphology

potato + peel

The meaning 'skin of a potato (here a crisp fried strip)' is directly and compositionally derived from 'potato' + 'peel' — a B1 learner who knows both words will understand it refers to the potato's outer skin. The culinary detail (fried, served as a snack) is a specific usage but does not obscure the transparent, cross‑linguistically common noun+noun composition.

Etymology

Potato peel comes from cooks frying the thin outer peel of a potato until it became crispy. Chefs often used leftover skins as a crunchy 'snack', so today potato peel means a crisp fried strip of potato skin served to eat.