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mashed-potato-y en · ADJ

Etymology

From mashed potato + -y.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of mashed-potatoey.
   alt of mashed-potatoey
   • I felt like I was totally present in the moment, but I wasn’t used to racing in mashed-potato-y snow. 2016, Curt Menefee with Michael Arkush, quoting Lindsey Jacobellis, Losing Isn’t Everything: The Untold Stories and Hidden Lessons Behind the Toughest Losses in Sports History, New York, N.Y.: Dey Street Books, William Morrow, published 2017, →ISBN, page 67:
   • They [Fryway] announced that they'd be using their accumulated wisdom to create the perfect highway-style fries, which they describe as mashed-potato-y on the inside, and crispy on the outside. 2021 October 11, Amy Carlberg, “Toronto just got its first spot for highway-style fries and poutine”, in blogTO, Toronto, Ont.: Freshdaily Inc., archived from the original on 11 Oct 2021:
   • “Ski conditions were not great,” said Janet Intrieri, a research scientist with NOAA’s Physical Sciences Laboratory. “In the morning it was super crusty, in the afternoon it was super mashed-potato-y. But we got what we needed.” 2023 May 9, “Precipitation Study In Colorado Rockies Strikes Gold During Epic Winter”, in NOAA Research, Silver Spring, Md.: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, archived from the original on 01 Jun 2023:
   • But, see, the trespass then explained her loosening—explained a thousand times over her systems of defenses. The shaft had gone a little mashed-potato-y but she was so mushy and loose it was like putting it in a greased-up laundry bag. You didn’t even have to say, Your body is mine . . . Or: Give me your body. 1991, Harold Brodkey, “Wiley in Love: 1956”, in The Runaway Soul, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, →ISBN, pages 301–302:
   • MacDinton’s is another Irish entry with a killer black and tan, a warming Irish coffee, and a fair representation of Irish staples, from rib-sticking, mashed-potato-y shepherd’s pie to respectable corned beef and cabbage. 2013, Laura Reiley, Bob Jenkins, Tampa & St. Petersburg (Moon Handbooks), Berkeley, Calif.: Avalon Travel, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 93, column 2:

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