spud

Examples

• All

• Your mum always gave me too much meat and too many spuds.

  Billy (2011)

• Buttered spuds for lunch, with boiled beef, apple pie, and custard.

  Nanny McPhee (2005)

• -Here, what did you do with the spuds?

  Wolfwalkers (2020)

• Well, now, you all got to try all of these spuds.

  A Feast of Man (2016)

• No spuds and no bread?

  Wolfwalkers (2020)

• Two over easy, English, no toast, and hold the spuds.

  *batteries not included (1987)

• Look at that fine bag of spuds, a lovely creamy skin on them.

  Fiction book (1992)

• I do like roast spuds with gravy quite a lot.

  Blog text (16)

• I didn't mind just spuds and beans for dinner.

  Blog text (5)

• When cooking dinner, I always include a few spuds for a hearty side dish.

Synonyms

P

potato

vsspud

501 1.0

A starchy vegetable that people eat, often boiled or mashed

is an informal name often used for the same tuber

T

tater

vsspud

• Informal

34 8.4

A potato that people cook and eat

focuses on being a common food crop rather than only the tuber

M

murphy

vsspud

• UK

9.9

A name for a potato used in some parts of Ireland and Britain

is a general informal name used widely not tied to a region

Compounds

S

spud head

• Offensive

1 9.8

An insulting name for a person who is foolish or lazy

B

baked spud

• Informal

3.0

A whole baked potato served with toppings like cheese or beans

S

stump spud

• Specialized

9.9

A small sharp hand shovel with a pointed blade for digging out roots and weeds

Surface Forms

Etymology