Entry · catalog no. 1098
pinder
/ /ˈpɪn.dər/ /PIN-der
noun · South Carolina / Lowcountry · 1800s
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1.
A peanut. A Lowcountry and Southern word for the groundnut, especially in South Carolina and Georgia.
“Grandmama boiled a pot of pinders on the porch.”
Origin & Attribution
From Kikongo/Kongo mpinda, "peanut," carried into the Gullah Lowcountry by enslaved Central Africans and traced in Lorenzo Dow Turner's "Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect" (1949). Recorded in South Carolina by 1848. One of several African plant words (with goober) preserved in Southern Black speech.
1848
Recorded in South Carolina
1949
Traced to Kongo mpinda in Turner's 'Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect'
Region of origin
West
Midwest
N.East
South
The South
South Carolina / Lowcountry · 1800s
Spoken by
Gullah, Lowcountry, and Southern Black speakers
$PINDERThe Record · cultural traction
▲ Fading178 yrs
ahead of the mainstream
22/100
peak cultural energy
Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.
Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest
First used
1848
in the culture
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Citations & Sources
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Lorenzo Dow Turner, "Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect" — scholarship · 1949
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+ Cite a sourceOxford English Dictionary, "pinder" (first S.C. record) — reference · 1848
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