Pandy

n.

Heard in Waterford, Cork, Tipperary and Limerick

Mashed potatoes mixed with butter and milk, usually served to children.

In use

Eat up your pandy and you'll be a big boy soon

Posh English

Do finish your mashed potatoes and butter, and you shall be a strapping young fellow in no time.

Same phrase, other counties

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  • Have a face that would turn milkTo possess a countenance so unattractive or scowling that it could sour milk.
  • PanadaBread soaked in hot milk, typically served as a simple restorative dish.
  • Lung butterMucus from the lungs.
  • Rum and butterRhyming slang for diarrhoea.
  • PoppiesPotatoes, especially boiled ones served with a family dinner.