Potato, the root of Solanum tuberosum; regarded as a strong provocative: “let the sky rain --es,” Wiv. V, 5, 21. “how the devil Luxury, with his fat rump and p. finger, tickles these together,” Troil. V, 2, 56.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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