mashed potato-ey
mashed potato-ey is the alternative form of mashed-potatoey.
Meaning of mashed-potatoey
Adjective
mashed-potatoey (comparative more mashed-potatoey, superlative most mashed-potatoey)
- Resembling or characteristic of mashed potato.
- “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...1987 February 4, “Professor Gives Facts About Snow Crystals”, in Hickory Daily Record, volume 72, number 30, Hickory, N.C., page 5A, column 1
- With 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
Forms of mashed potato-ey
| comparative | more mashed potato-ey |
|---|---|
| superlative | most mashed potato-ey |
Questions about mashed potato-ey
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- Mashed potato-ey is the alternative form of mashed-potatoey.
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