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mash potato

mash potato noun: mashed potato (food).

Noun

mash potato (countable and uncountable, plural mash potatoes)

  1. Mashed potato (food)
    • I ate a mash potato today.1995, Conan O’Brien et al., “Foreword —Carl “Oldy” Olson”, in If They Mated?, New York, N.Y.: Hyperion, →ISBN
    • Roasted Vegetables topped with a mash potato with a cheese herb crust2008 November 9, The Wealden Hall, “Evening Brasserie Set Menu”, in Kent on Sunday, number 320, Ashford, Kent: KOS Media Ltd., page 32
  2. Mashed potato (dance)
    • Interestingly enough, while Gilly usually tries do the mash potato, this time he went with a waltz.2009, Jarrod Kimber, The Year of the Balls 2008: A Disrespective, page 39

Examples of mash potato in a sentence

  • I cooked fisherman’s pie, with white fish and prawns, in a cheese sauce, with a mash potato on top.2010, John Stewart, Twin Gap Valley, Kennoway, Fife: Spiderwize, →ISBN, page 26:
  • Pan Fried Lambs Liver and Bacon served on a mash potato with chives, with onion gravy2010 April 27, The Windwhistle Inn, “Windwhistle Menu”, in Pulman’s View from Seaton & Beer, number 248, Axminster, Devon: Tindle, page 50:
  • Tha’ll help me make a bit of dinner for tonight with a few mash potatoes.2011, Kathleen Doyle, “Fish and Chips”, in What Ma Always Said: […], Dublin: Poolbeg Books Ltd, →ISBN, page 145:

Forms of mash potato

pluralmash potatoes

Origin of mash potato

Lexicalization of a reduced pronunciation of mashed potato with regular deletion of d before p, from mashed + potato. Compare ice cream (from iced cream).

Questions about mash potato

What does mash potato mean?
Mash potato means mashed potato (food).
How do you use mash potato in a sentence?
I cooked fisherman’s pie, with white fish and prawns, in a cheese sauce, with a mash potato on top.
What part of speech is mash potato?
Mash potato is a noun.
What is the plural of mash potato?
The plural of mash potato is mash potatoes.

Words near mash potato in the dictionary

  1. mash bean
  2. mash beans
  3. mash it up
  4. mash note
  5. mash notes
  6. mash potato
  7. mash potatoes
  8. mash tun
  9. mash tuns
  10. mash up
  11. mash-fat

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