n. An Irish dish of mashed potatoes mixed with cabbage or kale and often other vegetables, seasoned with butter. [Irish Gaelic cál ceannan : cál, cabbage (from Old Irish, from Latin caulis) + ceannan, white-headed (ceann, head, from Old Irish cenn; see PENDRAGON + fionn, white, from Old Irish find; see weid- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots).] |
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