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Spud

noun

An edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland. Synonyms: Irish potato, murphy, potato, tater, white potato.

A sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds. Synonym: stump spud.

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"Spud" Quotes from Famous Books

... delightful misshapen yew trees. Madame Valtesi, for instance, was knitting, a thing she had scarcely ever been noticed to do within the memory of man. Mrs. Windsor was going about in garden gloves, with a spud and a pair of clippers, damaging the flower-beds, with an air of duty and almost sacred responsibility. Mr. Amarinth was reading the newspaper like a married man; and Lord Reggie was lying in a hammock, trying to kill flies by clapping his hands ...

— The Green Carnation • Robert Smythe Hichens

... belonging to the Plough, which albe it be no member thereof, yet is it so necessary that the Husbandman which liueth in durty and stiffe clayes can neuer goe to Plough without it, and it is called the Aker-staffe, being a pretty bigge cudgell, of about a yarde in length, with an Iron spud at the end, according to ...

— The English Husbandman • Gervase Markham

... name for the solitary potato which gets into the stew. It's a great mystery how that lonely little spud got ...

— Over The Top • Arthur Guy Empey

Words linked to "Spud" : root vegetable, home fries, starches, Uruguay potato, solanaceous vegetable, bore, baked potato, chips, home-fried potatoes, fries, murphy, grow, french fries, white potato vine, jacket, Solanum tuberosum, pullulate, mashed potato, drill, french-fried potatoes, hand shovel