Food / A2

PEEL/piːl/

Peel means take the skin off fruit or vegetables: peel an orange, potato peel (noun extra), peel off a sticker. Skin is the noun on the fruit; peel is often the verb or the bits you remove. Pill is medicine — mix-up. Do not write peel when you mean peal (bells), or pale.

Meaning

To take the skin off a fruit or vegetable.

Examples

• “Peel the potatoes before you boil them.”
• “Peel the apple before you put it in the pie.”
• “Please put the orange peel in the food bin.”

Good to know

peel an orange / potato. Noun extra: peel (the skin you remove). Mix-up: pill, pale.

Topics

New