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Spud   /spəd/   Listen
noun
Spud  n.  
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. "My spud these nettles from the stone can part."
2.
A dagger. (Obs.)
3.
Anything short and thick; specifically, a piece of dough boiled in fat. (Local, U.S.)
4.
A potato. (Colloq.)





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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


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