See mashed potatoey on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2002, Randy Boyd, The Devil Inside, Indianapolis, Ind.: West Beach Books, →ISBN, page 134:",
"text": "He sat at his lonely table, back to the world, and began using his fingers to scoop the mashed potatoey slop into his mouth. The ration was tasteless crap and filet mignon at the same time.",
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"ref": "2004 November 28, Dean Lenort, “Potatoes”, in alt.religion.kibology (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-11-06:",
"text": "So after eating potatoes for each meal the last few days I'm wondering what ingredient I left out that would have had people spurning the turkey, sweet potatoes, stuffing and whatnot else and instead had them gorging themselves on pound after pound of mashed potatoey goodness.",
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"ref": "2006 March 22, Tzigaane, “Recaps: Finals Week 2, 3/21/2006”, in alt.tv.american-idol (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-11-06:",
"text": "Now *this* was a *totally* engaging performance and really caught the mood of the song. Some of the lowest parts were a little weak and there's something garbled in her pronunciation - it's a little mashed potatoey or something.",
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"ref": "2011, Tristan Bancks, “Hover Everything”, in My Life and Other Stuff I Made Up, Sydney, N.S.W.: Random House Australia, published 2014, →ISBN, page 185:",
"text": "The street lights are off. It’s a full moon. There is a patchy blanket of mashed potatoey cloud not far above our heads.",
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"ref": "2014, Felicity Bertin, Anna Walton, “Weaning and Nutrition”, in Worry-Free Weaning (Yummy Discoveries), London: Robert Hale, →ISBN, page 157, column 1:",
"text": "2. Chuck all the ingredients in a food processor and blitz so it has a ‘mashed potatoey’ feel",
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"ref": "2015, Myriam Gurba, Painting Their Portraits in Winter, San Francisco, Calif.: Manic D Press, →ISBN:",
"text": "I got as close as I could to Andrew’s coffin without climbing inside. I stared at his eyelids. Something underneath them turned their texture lumpy, mashed potatoey. / My cousin Nancy bumped her shoulder against mine. / “After Teresa turned off his life support,” she whispered, “she had somebody scoop out his eyes and donate them.”",
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"ref": "2016 May 16, Tiffany Liaw, “Restaurant Review: Manna Grill”, in The Highlander, Riverside, Calif.: University of California, Riverside, archived from the original on 2016-05-17:",
"text": "I can’t exactly describe what kind of sauce it was, but it was spicy, slightly sweet and could literally pair with anything including the kimbap and potato croquettes (which were a little lacking in flavor, but still filled with mashed potatoey goodness and bits of vegetables inside).",
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"ref": "2017 January/February, Lora Abernathy, “That’s the icing on the cake”, in Salt, Wilmington, Oh.: Civitas Media, LLC, via Issuu or Newspapers.com (through the Xenia Daily Gazette), page 28, column 3:",
"text": "The cake was so moist and the icing was extra “mashed potatoey” (sorry, Gary).",
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"ref": "2021 March 2, David Sachs, “It’s prime rib night at the local municipal golf course”, in Denverite, Denver, Colo.: Colorado Public Radio, archived from the original on 2021-03-02:",
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"ref": "2014 March 3, Laura Reiley, “Good gravy!”, in tbt* (Tampa Bay Times), St. Petersburg, Fla.: Times Publishing Company, published 2014 March 5, archived from the original on 2014-08-11, page 27, column 2:",
"text": "The menu is pure British pub, from the big-as-a-Kia batter-dipped fish with classic plank fries and a housemade tartar sauce ($10.99) to a solid shepherd’s pie ($9.99), which beats a bunch of other local versions because it combines ground beef and lamb to give that musky savor to the mashed potatoey comfort food (his taters are herbed, with melted cheddar riding high).",
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"text": "I got as close as I could to Andrew’s coffin without climbing inside. I stared at his eyelids. Something underneath them turned their texture lumpy, mashed potatoey. / My cousin Nancy bumped her shoulder against mine. / “After Teresa turned off his life support,” she whispered, “she had somebody scoop out his eyes and donate them.”",
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"ref": "2017 January/February, Lora Abernathy, “That’s the icing on the cake”, in Salt, Wilmington, Oh.: Civitas Media, LLC, via Issuu or Newspapers.com (through the Xenia Daily Gazette), page 28, column 3:",
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