A dish of potatoes mashed with spring onions, butter, and milk, typically served with a well pressed in the centre into which melted butter is poured for dipping.
my mother was sure to have a big pot of poundies ready for our dinner
Example sentencesExamples
About dinner time, my mother puts on a big pot of poundies and scallions and started dishing them out to the 'troops'.
The mother was peeling potatoes, making poundies for the supper.
The dish features a center cut rib-eye steak covered with Irish Stout caramelized onions, Irish poundies, and topped with Irish cheddar cheese served on a fresh roll.
I put my books and things away and wait for my poundies and sausages.
Then came the main course: Irish stew, with poundies and buttermilk.
Phrases
(as) thick as poundies
informal Very stupid.
the man is as thick as poundies
Example sentencesExamples
We are perceived as thick as poundies.
The teachers told him he was as thick as poundies.
I care nothing for the fellows in this town—they are thick as poundies.
For all his eminence, for all his brains, the man is as thick as poundies.
He was boorish and ignorant—"as thick as poundies" he would claim proudly.
Origin
Late 19th century: from the pounding motion used to mash the potatoes.