mashed-potatoey

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1. informalResembling or characteristic of mashed potato.

   We used to break off crumbs and crunch it into a mashed-potatoey pulp.

   2002, Warren Cariou, Lake of the Prairies: A Story of Belonging, [Toronto, Ont.]: Doubleday Canada, →ISBN, page 247

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   “The tops of these clouds look fibrous or wispy because they’re made up of crystals,” he [Bill Imperatore] said. “The bottoms are cottony or mashed-potatoey-looking because they’re warmer. Some water vapor begins to fall as ice crystals but it melts on the way down and exits the cloud in the form of rain.”

   1987 February 4, “Professor Gives Facts About Snow Crystals”, in Hickory Daily Record, volume 72, number 30, Hickory, N.C., page 5A, column 1

   French fries are cut steak-style, thick and fried a blond color, sort of mashed-potatoey inside.

   1992 January 24, Andrea Ray Chandler, “Gates & Sons meat has that smoky taste”, in The Olathe Daily News, volume 32, number 250, Olathe, Kan., page 8B

   The only fishcakes I have ever personally experienced were these frozen pre-made fishcake things. These were round breaded things containing a soft mashed-potatoey substance.

   2002 January 17, Richard Fontana, “Fishcake”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Nov 2023

   I proceeded to eat what else lay on my plate, including the small crabs (shell and all, as it should be done apparently) and the jelly-like, mashed-potatoey, no flavour, whitish substance that went with the sauce.

   2003 June 13, Natasha Mullen, “Out of Africa”, in The Lance, volume 76, number 12, Windsor, Ont.: University of Windsor, published 7 October 2003, page 16, column 2

   The only drawback, she [Mary Williams] says, is that you have to get up early for the best snow conditions. It can get slushy and mashed-potatoey by mid-afternoon.

   2007 April 5, Pete Zimowsky, “It’s party time at area ski resorts as season winds down”, in Outdoors (Idaho Statesman), Boise, Ida., page 12

2. informalWith mashed potato.

   Silent tears brimmed in Lorraine’s eyes as she stood there, wringing her mashed-potatoey hands on a dish towel.

   1994, Anthony Bruno, Bad Apple, New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 289

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   MacDinton’s Irish Pub & Restaurant ([…]) 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-potatoey shepherd’s pie to respectable corned beef and cabbage.

   2005, Laura Reiley, “[Tampa] Nightlife”, in Florida Gulf Coast (Moon Handbooks), Emeryville, Calif.: Avalon Travel, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 169, column 2

   On more than one occasion, usually after Mom and Pop had left the kitchen, I said, “You call this pot clean? It still has mashed potatoes on it.” I tossed it back in the sink so bubbles flew in her face and a wave of mashed-potatoey water splashed her shirt.

   2006 April 30, Pat Kuhl, “I just call her Sis”, in Sunday Magazine (Belleville News-Democrat), Belleville, Ill., page 4, column 1