or praty, subs. (Irish).A potato: see MURPHY.
1833. MARRYAT, Peter Simple, I. xii. In future you must do something to get your own dinner; theres not PRATIES enow for the whole of ye.
1856. C. READE, It Is Never Too Late to Mend, lxv. I wish it was PRATEES we are digging, Id may be dig up a dinner any way.