1. spud(n = noun.food) irish potato, murphy, potato, tater, white potato - an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland; Array
is a kind of starches, solanaceous vegetable, root vegetable
is a part of potato, solanum tuberosum, white potato, white potato vine
has parts: jacket
has particulars: baked potato, chips, french-fried potatoes, french fries, fries, home-fried potatoes, home fries, mashed potato, uruguay potato
2. spud(n = noun.artifact) stump spud - a sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds; Array
is a kind of hand shovel
1. spud(v = verb.contact) Array - initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum; "The well was spudded in April"
is one way to bore, drill
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
2. spud(v = verb.change) bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, shoot, sprout - produce buds, branches, or germinate; "the potatoes sprouted"
is one way to grow
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
1. A sharp, narrow spade, usually with a long handle, used by farmers for digging up large-rooted weeds; a similarly shaped implement used for various purposes. [1913 Webster]
"My spud these nettles from the stone can part." [1913 Webster]
2. A dagger. Holland. [1913 Webster]
3. Anything short and thick; specifically, a piece of dough boiled in fat. [1913 Webster]
4. A potato. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
spud, n. & v.
--n.
1 sl. a potato.
2 a small narrow spade for cutting the roots of weeds etc.
--v.tr. (spudded, spudding)
1 (foll. by up, out) remove (weeds) with a spud.
2 (also absol.; often foll. by in) make the initial drilling for (an oil well).
Idiom:
spud-bashing Brit. sl. a lengthy spell of peeling potatoes.
Etymology:
ME: orig. unkn.
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