spud
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"The thing is, I really love a right good jacket spud with all the filling in, so I thought, why not?"
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2025
She believes the spud frenzy is all about the sheer surprise and novelty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
Cantwell is right to defend the spud against this line of attack.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
But the case, like so many others, fell by the flesh of the spud.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2024
Dennis had the craving, so he did, for a nice sheep’s head with a bit of cabbage and a spud so up with me to Barry the butcher with the last few shillings I had.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
Or, if you prefer softer spuds, Danny also has a genius tip for leveling up your potato salad.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026
Six weeks without rain has scorched his cauliflowers, shrivelled his spuds, and shrunk his bank balance.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
At the plants, the spuds are cut, fried, coated in seasoning and bagged while still warm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
As for “Chicken Shop Date,” the online series first began with Dimoldenberg interviewing grime artists over greasy chicken and deep fried spuds before doing the same with Hollywood celebrities.
From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2024
Mam says ’tis all right for her to be begging at the St.Vincent de Paul Society for a docket for food but he can’t stick a few spuds in his pocket.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
The first horizontal well in the Bakken was spudded by Meridian Oil in 1987, long before the current boom.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2013
Meanwhile, we’re drilling and just spudded on December 31st, the Lineham Creek well you see onshore Louisiana there.
From Forbes ● Feb. 21, 2012
The country's first commercial oil well was spudded in nearby Moonie.
From Reuters ● Nov. 16, 2011
The company spudded in, ironically, almost precisely where the British-owned Iraq Petroleum Co. abandoned a test drilling in 1947 after going down 3,500 ft.
From Time Magazine Archive
After luncheon, Bluebell wandered away in search of wild flowers, the children hunted for cray-fish, Miss Prosody spudded up ferns, and Mrs. Rolleston drew from her pocket her favourite point-lace.
From Bluebell A Novel by Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
Understandably eager for oil, little Jordan celebrated the spudding in of Mecom's first well in the olive groves and rolling hills north of Hebron.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hugh used to trot about with him, spudding up weeds from the lawn.
From Hugh Memoirs of a Brother by Arthur Christopher Benson
