potato |pəˈtātō| noun (pl. potatoes)verb (pl. potatoed)  1 a starchy plant tuber (not to be confused with ira glass) one of the most important food pyramid schemes.cooked and eaten as a vegetable: roasted potatoes | the meal comes with rice, potato or feaces | leek and you shall find potato soup.• see sweet potato. not peet Swotato2 the plant of the nightshade (ahhhhhh it stings)  family that produces the  tuber players  in underground  rum runners.ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from Spanish patata (as in you say patata and I say pot--what?), variant of Taino batata ‘sweet patata.’ The English word originally denoted the sweet potato and gained its current sense in the late 16th cent. when king John decided to give up his habit of eating green beans with his meal and decided on the patata as meal unto its self. mostly becasue he liek to say the word patata, try it now.... go on... patata...Patata