spud
English
/spʌd/
noun
Definitions
- (informal) A potato.
- (informal) A hole in a sock.
- (plumbing) A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends.
- (obsolete) Anything short and thick.
- (obsolete) A piece of dough boiled in fat.
- (slang) A testicle.
- (obsolete) A dagger.
- A digging fork with three broad prongs.
- A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc.
- A barking spud; a long-handled tool for removing bark from logs.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English spudde (small knife).
Origin
Middle English
spudde
Gloss
small knife
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- batspit English
- bespit English
- outspit English
- sandspit English
- spit English
- spit-ball English
- spit-poison English
- spitball English
- spitbox English
- spitbraai English
- spitbug English
- spitfire English
- spitful English
- spitless English
- spitpoison English
- spitshine English
- spitstick English
- spitter English
- spittest English
- spitteth English
- spittoon English
- spitty English
- spuddy English
- spudless English
- spudlike English
- turnspit English
- unspit English
- Spieß German
- Spießbürger German
- Spießrute German
- spießen German
- spyd Norwegian Bokmål
- *speutą Proto-Germanic
- spyd Norwegian Nynorsk
- spit Middle English
- spudde Middle English
- spjót Old Norse
- spyd Danish
- espiet Old French
- spjót Icelandic
- spjót Faroese
- spiȥ Middle High German
- spiut Old Swedish
- spet Tok Pisin
- spiut Old Danish
- spiuot Elfdalian
- spet Torres Strait Creole