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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

... Spud," he chuckled; "you're not bigger than a minute with fifty seconds in it. Gosh, I wish something would happen. I'm ...

— Tess of the Storm Country • Grace Miller White

... getting you away," he said. "They would have tattooed you all over and turned you into a nigger and made you marry one of their girls. I'll stay by you, for the chances are they may come back and try again to make you a prisoner. The doctor must manage to do without his spud." ...

— Peter Trawl - The Adventures of a Whaler • W. H. G. Kingston

... said: "The pears will soon bud." Sister Angelique said she must get her spud And free the earth round the jasmine roots. Sister Veronique said: "Oh, look at those shoots! There's a crocus ...

— Sword Blades and Poppy Seed • Amy Lowell

... much of your courting, Spud," replied Doggie cheerfully. "Who are you writing to? Your ...

— The Rough Road • William John Locke

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