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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.

verb

Initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum.

Produce buds, branches, or germinate. Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, shoot, sprout.

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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

... was just as nice a carpse as ever I see, and I was a'most minded to put his paddle [thistle-spud] beside him in his coffin, for he was always a-diggin' ...

— Grain and Chaff from an English Manor • Arthur H. Savory

... a gentlemanly vice I hold; and wish that it had been my lot To live my life out in some favored spot— Some country where it is considered nice To split a rival like a fish, or slice A husband like a spud, or with a shot Bring down a debtor doubled in a knot And ready to be put upon the ice. Some miscreants there are, whom I do long To shoot, to stab, or some such way reclaim The scurvy rogues to better lives and manners, I seem to see them now—a ...

— The Devil's Dictionary • Ambrose Bierce