peanuts - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)
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- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpiːnʌts/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpiˌnʌts/
- Hyphenation: pea‧nuts
peanuts
- → Kashubian: pinacë (Canada)
peanuts pl (plural only)
- (informal, figurative) Especially of a salary: a very insufficient or small amount.
Synonyms: pittance, trifle
It’s a fun job, but it pays peanuts.
- if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys
- → German: Peanuts
very insufficient or small amount
- Catalan: quatre rals, quatre xavos
- Finnish: suolarahat pl
- German: Peanuts (de) f pl, für einen Apfel und ein Ei
- Japanese: 雀の涙 (ja) (すずめ-の-なみだ, suzumu-no-namida)
- Norwegian:
Bokmål: peanuts pl, en slikk og ingenting - Persian: (please verify) پول ناچیز (puli nâčiz) (Dari)
- Portuguese: ninharia (pt) f
- Russian: гроши́ (ru) m pl (groší), копе́йки (ru) f pl (kopéjki)
- Spanish: calderilla (es), cuatro cuartos, cuatro duros
- Swedish: spottstyver (sv) c, struntsumma c
- Turkish: üç kuruş
peanuts
- third-person singular simple present indicative of peanut