couch potato
English
noun
Definitions
- (idiom) A person who spends a lot of time sitting or lying down, often watching television, eating snacks or drinking alcohol.
Etymology
Compound from English couch + English potato.
Origin
English
potato
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Indian potato English
- couch English
- couch-potatoey English
- couchable English
- couchbound English
- coucher English
- couchful English
- couching English
- couchless English
- couchlike English
- couchlock English
- couchmate English
- couchness English
- couchside English
- nonpotato English
- potato English
- potatoey English
- potatolike English
- prepotato English
- recouch English
- smashed potatoes English
- Couch German
- patata Spanish, Castilian
- カウチ Japanese
- ポテト Japanese
- potet Norwegian Nynorsk
- couche Middle English
- couche Old French
- taten Welsh
- tato Welsh
- potato Ido
- gauč Slovak
- 카우치 Korean
- piteto Marshallese
- kawč Lower Sorbian
- poteto Tok Pisin
- boteto Palauan