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fauxtato en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /fə-/ (General-American)
• /-tə/ (General-American)
• (General-American) audio
• /foʊˈteɪtoʊ/ (General-American)
• /fəʊˈteɪtəʊ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /-ɾə/ (General-American)
• /fə-/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Blend of faux (“artificial, fake”) + potato.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Cauliflower when used as an alternative to potatoes by followers of a low-carbohydrate diet.
   • One recipe is to smash cauliflower and mix it with butter and cream to make mashed almost-potatoes. […] For the first week of the Atkins diet I walked around in a zombie-like state occasionally mumbling to myself. “Meat good.” “Bread bad.” “Got fauxtato?” 2004 June 17, J.W. Shults, “Please pass the fauxtatoes”, in Woodford County Journal, volume 138, number 25, Eureka, Ill., →OCLC, page 4A, column 5:

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