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Spud   /spəd/   Listen
Spud

noun
1.
An edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland.  Synonyms: Irish potato, murphy, potato, tater, white potato.
2.
A sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds.  Synonym: stump spud.
verb
1.
Initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum.
2.
Produce buds, branches, or germinate.  Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, shoot, sprout.



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"Spud" Quotes from Famous Books



... Whither I hie thrice daily for my stew, I dream I'm Mr. Waldorf as I chew My prunes or lay my Boston-baked on top. Growley and sinkers, slum and mutton sop, India-rubber jelly known as "glue," A soup-bone goulash with a spud or two, Clatter below ...
— The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor • Wallace Irwin
... to Sheelah is more firmly fixt, Than strongest weeds that grow those stones betwixt; My spud these nettles from the stones can part; No knife so keen to weed thee from ...
— Poems (Volume II.) • Jonathan Swift
... offered his hand, his title, and the third of a county. Since his marriage his early hobby had become distasteful to him. Even in private theatricals it was no longer possible to persuade him to exercise the talent which he had often showed that he possessed. He was happier with a spud and a watering-can among ...
— Tales of Terror and Mystery • Arthur Conan Doyle
... Mrs. Pullet observed that the child might come to a worse end if she lived, there was no knowing; and Mr. Pullet, confused and overwhelmed by this revolutionary aspect of things,—the tea deferred and the poultry alarmed by the unusual running to and fro,—took up his spud as an instrument of search, and reached down a key to unlock the goose-pen, as a likely place for Maggie to ...
— The Mill on the Floss • George Eliot
... to be the secretary of his class, and his popularity with dear old classmates became a nuisance in our tiny home. I remember one well-known bachelor of arts who answered to the name of Spud, a rather vulgar little man. Comfortably seated in Carl's study one morning, with a cigar in his mouth, ...
— How To Write Special Feature Articles • Willard Grosvenor Bleyer


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