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UK
/spˈʌd/
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[ US /ˈspəd/ ]
[ US /ˈspəd/ ]
NOUN
- a sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds
- an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland
VERB
-
produce buds, branches, or germinate
the potatoes sprouted -
initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum
The well was spudded in April
How To Use spud In A Sentence
- Most would agree that the spuds would carry the faint whiff of moral complicity. Times, Sunday Times
- Yet it still survives as a flowery way of telling your spouse that there's more than one way of peeling spuds. Times, Sunday Times
- Put them in a medium oven then treat them like jacket spuds. The Sun
- The vegetable garden is doing quite well, with spuds, broccoli, onions, cabbage and garlic all starting to grow.
- I can feel the stuff I don't say rotting inside me like mildewy spuds in a sack," he says.
- When it comes to the boil add the spuds and put on the lid. The Sun
- If you don't get down to the market before 4.30 pm, you'll have missed your last chance to enjoy their spectacular spuds, caulis, carrots and broccoli, all grown on the family firm's own acres in Wigginton.
- They said: 'An old lady said we looked like roast spuds. The Sun
- Take the spud washer off the pipe that sticks out of the bottom of the tank.
- Cut your peeled spuds into just four or six pieces so they are as fat as two fingers. The Sun
