mashed-potato-y
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.31 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "I felt like I was totally present in the moment, but I wasn’t used to racing in mashed-potato-y snow."
- "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."
- "“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.”"
Etymology
From mashed potato + -y.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more mashed-potato-y (comparative)
most mashed-potato-y (superlative)