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peanut brittle — noun brittle containing peanuts • Hypernyms: ↑brittle, ↑toffee, ↑toffy * * * peanut brittle, a candy of carmelized sugar and peanuts … Useful english dictionary
peanut brittle — /pinʌt ˈbrɪtl/ (say peenut britl) noun a hard toffee containing peanuts. Also, peanut brickle …
brittle — [brit′ l] adj. [ME britel < OE breotan, to break to pieces; akin to ON brjota < IE * bhreu < base * bher , to cut with a sharp point] 1. easily broken or shattered because hard and inflexible 2. having a sharp, hard quality [brittle… … English World dictionary
Peanut — For other uses, see Peanut (disambiguation). Peanut Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked) … Wikipedia
Peanut butter — Smooth peanut butter in a jar Peanut butter is a food paste made primarily from ground dry roasted peanuts, popular in North America, Netherlands, United Kingdom, and parts of Asia, particularly the Philippines and Indonesia. It is mainly used as … Wikipedia
Brittle (food) — Brittles are confections, usually very hard and brittle, made of caramel, or near caramel sugar syrup, and nuts such as peanuts, pecans, and almonds.Peanut brittle is one of the numerous varieties of nut brittles, which consist of flat broken… … Wikipedia
brittle — I. adjective (brittler; brittlest) Etymology: Middle English britil; akin to Old English brēotan to break, Old Norse brjōta Date: 14th century 1. a. easily broken, cracked, or snapped < brittle clay > < brittle glass > … New Collegiate Dictionary
brittle — brittleness, n. /brit l/, adj., brittler, brittlest, n., v., brittled, brittling. adj. 1. having hardness and rigidity but little tensile strength; breaking readily with a comparatively smooth fracture, as glass. 2. easily damaged or destroyed;… … Universalium
brittle — /ˈbrɪtl / (say britl) adjective 1. breaking readily with a comparatively smooth fracture, as glass. 2. tense; irritable. 3. strained; insincere. –noun 4. a sweet made with treacle and nuts: peanut brittle. {Middle English britel, from Old English …
peanut — ☆ peanut [pē′nut΄, pē′nət ] n. [ PEA + NUT] 1. a spreading, annual vine (Arachis hypogaea) of the pea family, with yellow flowers and brittle pods ripening underground and containing one to three edible seeds 2. the pod or any of its seeds 3. [pl … English World dictionary
