SPUD (spudded, spudding)

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Irregular inflected forms: spudded    , spudding   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does spud mean? 

• SPUD (noun)
  The noun SPUD has 2 senses:

1. an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland

2. a sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds

  Familiarity information: SPUD used as a noun is rare.

• SPUD (verb)
  The verb SPUD has 2 senses:

1. initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum

2. produce buds, branches, or germinate

  Familiarity information: SPUD used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPUD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

Irish potato; murphy; potato; spud; tater; white potato

Hypernyms ("spud" is a kind of...):

starches (foodstuff rich in natural starch (especially potatoes, rice, bread))

solanaceous vegetable (any of several fruits of plants of the family Solanaceae; especially of the genera Solanum, Capsicum, and Lycopersicon)

root vegetable (any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers)

Meronyms (parts of "spud"):

jacket (the outer skin of a potato)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spud"):

baked potato (potato that has been cooked by baking it in an oven)

chips; french-fried potatoes; french fries; fries (strips of potato fried in deep fat)

home-fried potatoes; home fries (sliced pieces of potato fried in a pan until brown and crisp)

mashed potato (potato that has been peeled and boiled and then mashed)

Uruguay potato (similar to the common potato)

Holonyms ("spud" is a part of...):

potato; Solanum tuberosum; white potato; white potato vine (annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers; widely cultivated as a garden vegetable; vines are poisonous)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

spud; stump spud

Hypernyms ("spud" is a kind of...):

hand shovel (a shovel that is operated by hand)

• SPUD (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they spud    ... he / she / it spuds   
Past simple: spudded   
Past participle: spudded   
-ing form: spudding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

The well was spudded in April

Hypernyms (to "spud" is one way to...):

bore; drill (make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Produce buds, branches, or germinate

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

bourgeon; burgeon forth; germinate; pullulate; shoot; sprout; spud

Context example:

the potatoes sprouted

Hypernyms (to "spud" is one way to...):

grow (increase in size by natural process)

Verb group:

germinate (cause to grow or sprout)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

 Context examples 

With a spud, a tin box, and an elementary book on botany, there are instructive days to be spent.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I rigged up a contraption to hold off those stinking beasts, and I spent a happy day there with a spud.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)