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Irish apricot
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English
Noun
en obsolete slang A potato.
en 1839 John Gideon Millingen Stories of Torres Vedras 140 "Ha! ha!" retorted his opponent, with a malicious grin, "and sugar, Sir, sugar, sugar; will your Irish apricots make sugar? No, no, mangel wurzel is the thing to fatten and improve everything and anything. "
en Potatoes