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Meanings of spud in English

Portuguese
batata
Catalan
patata
Spanish
patata
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An edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland.

        batata
        Portuguese
        germinar
        Catalan
        créixer
        Spanish
        brotar

        Produce buds, branches, or germinate.

            germinar
            Portuguese
            batata

            A sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds.

                  batata
                  Usage of spud in English
                  1
                  Not that any given spud is ever such a paragon of form.
                  The botany of desire: a plant's-eye view of the world
                  2
                  Tom made the spud synthesiser for recent play The Potato Stamp Megalomaniac.
                  Radio NZ
                  3
                  Borr Drilling Frigg has a spud can diameter of approximately 60 feet.
                  Reuters
                  4
                  The dredger cuts by swinging on a center spud 16 in.
                  Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887
                  5
                  Doesn't do a thing nowadays but dig in the garden with a spud.
                  A Wodehouse Miscellany: Articles & Stories
                  6
                  No hostile forms with axe or spud now visit these solitudes.
                  Wake-Robin
                  7
                  In his hand he held a spud, and he wore gauntleted gardener's gloves.
                  Tales of Terror and Mystery
                  8
                  Ora thinks and stares at the large spud lying semi-peeled in her hand.
                  To the end of the land
                  9
                  I was afraid to ask for an extra spud, for fear of further rejection!
                  The Irish Times
                  10
                  And do some types of spud have more than others?
                  The Guardian
                  11
                  He was happier with a spud and a watering-can among his orchids and chrysanthemums.
                  Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life
                  12
                  Sounds like he plans to dissect me with a clinkering-spud.
                  Blameless
                  13
                  I had it in mind he was still a spud.
                  Lonesome dove
                  14
                  The spud is one of those unheralded bedrocks that make us what we are.
                  The Irish Times
                  15
                  It was around for centuries before the spud appeared on our shores, he says.
                  The Irish Times
                  16
                  It's a great mystery how that lonely little spud got into such bad company.
                  "Over the Top," by an American Soldier Who Went / Together with ...
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