Potato Germans

English

Etymology

Calque of Danish Kartoffeltyskere, in reference to the cultivation of potatoes in the areas they settled.

Noun

Potato Germans pl (plural only)

  1. (historical) A group of German families who settled in the heathlands of central Jutland in Denmark during the mid-1700s.
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