spud /spʌd/noun 12verb 4forms 3 noun12 •(informal) A potato.You can praise God by peeling a spud if you peel it to perfection. Don't compromise. Compromise is a language of the devil. Run in God's name, and let the world stand back and in wonder. — 1981 •A digging fork with three broad prongs. •A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc.My love to Sheelah is more firmly fixt, / Than strongest weeds that grow these stones betwixt: / My spud these nettles from the stone can part; / No knife so keen to weed thee from my heart. — 1728 •[usually plural] (slang) A testicle. •A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends.With the tank resting upside down on an old towel or blanket, use a spud wrench or a large pair of channel-type pliers to loosen the spud nut. — 2003 •A short central rod in a lighting fixture, for attachment to the light. •A barking spud; a long-handled tool for removing bark from logs. •(informal) A hole in a sock.He leans over to one side to get the light, as he darns a hole in the heel of a sock. He is getting pretty smart at it now, and no longer makes spuds in the sock to chafe his heels. — 1958 •A movable post through a sleeve in the hull of a work barge to anchor it to the bottom of a body of water. •(no longer used) Anything short and thick. •(no longer used) A dagger. •(dialect, no longer used) A piece of dough boiled in fat. verb4 •To dig up weeds with a spud.There was thistle-spudding all over the Marsh; an army of thistles, an army of spudders. — 1936 •To begin drilling an oil well; to drill by moving the drill bit and shaft up and down, or by raising and dropping a bit.When a well is spudded, the drilling assembly is loosely tied to the guide wires with 1/2″ manila rope. — 1999 •To set up a recreational vehicle (RV) at a campsite, typically by leveling the RV and connecting it to electric, water, or sewer hookups. •To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping. formsspudded · spudding · spuds
