English–Irish Dictionary (de Bhaldraithe): Potato-mash (2024)

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English–Irish Dictionary (de Bhaldraithe): Potato-mash. Potato-mash, brúitín m (prátaí). Mashed potatoes, brúitín m. Mashed potatoes, brúitín m, prátaí brúite.

Pomme Puree - a fancy way to say mashed potatoes.

práta » Potato. áirí » Ground manured in previous year; ground from which potatoes have been cropped.

'Boxty' originates in the 1700s and may get its name from the Irish 'arán bocht tí', meaning 'poor house bread', due to its humble ingredients, making it a staple in Irish households where potatoes were relied upon to survive. It is a simple potato pancake using mashed and/or grated potatoes.

There are numerous ways in the Irish language to denote a potato's size. Sizable specimens include práta garbh, a large, lumpy potato, gillín práta, a fine, fat potato, and peil, the same word as used for football. Póiríní are small potatoes, like pebbles, as are both creacháin and sceidíní prátaí.

potatophile (plural potatophiles) (rare) A lover of potatoes.

Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Mashed potato or mashed potatoes (American, Canadian and Australian English), colloquially known as mash (British English), is a dish made by mashing boiled or steamed potatoes, usually with added milk, butter, salt and pepper.

So, a tater is a potato. (My nanny gets mad that I've outgrown this word.) Y'all/you'uns/yuns.

Irish Proverb.

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Consequently, a person without a path, a goal, a passion, a drive, or 'seeds of a destiny' – whatever label one gives – a person who denies his or her potential agency or proactivity is mashed potatoes: malleable, easily altered, ineffective under pressure.

This shout might be the worst of all. Mashed potato came from one golfer wanting his mum to spot him on TV. Andrew Widmar first shouted it at the 2011 Chevron World Challenge after Tiger hit a stinger. His mum wanted to know how she could spot Widmar at the course.

Grains, either as bread or porridge, were the other mainstay of the pre-potato Irish diet, and the most common was the humble oat, usually made into oatcakes and griddled (ovens hadn't really taken off yet).

Until the arrival of the potato in the 16th century, grains such as oats, wheat and barley, cooked either as porridge or bread, formed the staple of the Irish diet.

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The Irish would eat sausages and potato but they wouldn't call it “bangers and mash”. And they are fairly likely to make the potato into something like colcannon which is basically mashed potatoes with bits of green vegetables such as cabbage.

Colcannon (Irish: cál ceannann, meaning 'white-headed cabbage') is a traditional Irish dish of mashed potatoes with cabbage.