amount vs peanuts

amount and peanuts both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
amount	Yes	No	Yes	No
peanuts	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, peanuts is a hyponym of amount; that is, peanuts is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than amount:

amount (noun)	peanuts (noun)
how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify	an insignificant sum of money; a trifling amount
the relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterion
a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers
a quantity of money

amount (verb)	peanuts (verb)
to measure up to in kind or quality
add up in number or quantity
be tantamount or equivalent to