Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

prune

English answer:

pruney fingers and toes

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Mar 25, 2020 19:50
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English term

prune

Non-PRO English Other General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters prune
Let's get you out before you turn into a big giant prune.

A mother who give her son a bath, that's what she said in the end of it. The son is about 10 years old.

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5 +5 pruney fingers and toes

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Tina Vonhof (X) Mar 25, 2020:
A prune is a dried plum. It is all wrinkly as I assume you know.

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pruney fingers and toes

You say that your fingers are "pruney" when you soak in the bathtub for a long time. It means that your fingers and toes have become wrinkled.
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