Meaning of kartoffel | Babel Free

Definitions

A potato.

rare

Examples

“I’ll shplit dem like kartoffels: […]”

“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.””

““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.””

“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.”

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

“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.””

“Big Jim Lockett is in command, and with the aid of about ten others enough items of food are collected among the 60 of us (bullion cubes, kartoffels, some carrots, salt, oleo, etc.) to make a good soup with seconds all the way around. […] We sat by the fire all-day and bashed. We fried kartoffels, baked kartoffels, boiled kartoffels and really filled ourselves up.”

“In the distance the patrol approaches at port arms, in a line of skirmishers, Teutonic, in search of Celts. […] I do not share their fondness for kartoffels.”

“From Ireland’s signature crop to Germany’s hearty kartoffeln, France’s pommes frites, even Russian vodka, potatoes may not always be the star of the meal, but they certainly take the best supporting actor award.”

“While all of these are must-try eats, one wouldn’t be able to leave town without a bit of kartoffeln ‘n kloess and locally made German sausage.”

“[T]heir first thoughts after finding out if they were still at war was of kartoffels and comic supplements.”

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