banana

/baˈnana/ · B2 · noun · f

banana

🍌 banana: yellow fruit, and a 'peel-able' fool who slips up like on a peel

Spanish banana names the fruit (feminine: la banana). As slang it calls someone an idiot or smartass, like a person who keeps slipping on a banana peel. The word comes via Portuguese from a West African language (Wolof banaana).

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