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spud

[spuhd] / spʌd /
NOUN
tuber
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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

PepsiCo decided the brand needed to reclaim its roots in the spud.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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

His Halloween videos, with kids gleefully grabbing the spuds, have garnered hundreds of thousands of views on Instagram.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

She says they had to make do with ham, pickled onions and "a few spuds that my daughter had left over mashed up with frozen broccoli and cauliflower".

From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2024

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

Malachy smiles and says she brought home corned beef and a few spuds from Kathleen O’Connell’s shop.

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

They "spudded in" at midnight on June 21, 1937, using a 20-in. bit.

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


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