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  • noun rare, informal Banana.

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Examples

  • 'banan' in Arabic, means finger, suggesting that the bananas then, were of the small variety.

    unknown title 2009

  • They contain vitamins and tasty sugars, and the word banana comes from an Arab-language word, banan, which means “finger.”

    E Is for Environment Ian James Corlett 2011

  • They contain vitamins and tasty sugars, and the word banana comes from an Arab-language word, banan, which means “finger.”

    E Is for Environment Ian James Corlett 2011

  • Aaahahahaha, vilken tur att man drog sig ur den banan!

    Malmö release party Niklas Asker 2009

  • On this day Ed had declared to Scott and Johnny that the snow conditions were right for taking the banan peel down the steep face of the hill behind the house.

    Archive 2003-03-01 Ed 2003

  • Take a look at the definite article for instance, which is denoted by a suffix in the Scandinavian languages ("bord-et", "banan-en"), and only precedes nouns as a distinct word in the West Germanic manner when the nouns are qualified by adjectives ("det nye hus" instead of "huset").

    languagehat.com: LOWLANDS LANGUAGES. 2004

  • "Go getta da banan, or I slice you up fora de chuck," repeated the supposed Italian, rising slowly from his seat by the fire and advancing toward Ten-Ichi; but he had not taken a step before he found himself looking into the muzzle of a pistol, and Patsy, in his capacity as host over the meal, said sourly:

    A Woman at Bay Or, a Fiend in Skirts Nicholas Carter

  • I hava da bunch uh banan in da tree ifa you want more chuck.

    A Woman at Bay Or, a Fiend in Skirts Nicholas Carter

  • Line 319 (158) [2], _banan_ (misreads MS. in footnote).

    The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography Chauncey Brewster Tinker 1919

  • Then I have a cart and sell fruit, banan, orange, apple, in de street, four year.

    A Busy Year at the Old Squire's 1887

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  • The color of a ripe banana.

    June 22, 2015