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A friendly, informal word for a potato. It is not slang that anyone would find rude — it is the , kitchen-table word, common in Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, and understood but less used in America.
A friendly, informal word for a potato spud 是馬鈴薯的親切、口語說法 It is not slang that anyone would find rude它不是那種會讓人覺得粗魯的俚語 it is the cosy, kitchen-table word而是一種溫馨、像在廚房餐桌上講話的用詞 common in Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand在英國、愛爾蘭、澳洲、紐西蘭很常見 and understood but less used in America在美國聽得懂，但比較少用
You hear it in phrases like 'peel the spuds', 'meat and two veg and a few spuds', 'fish and chips made with proper spuds'. Because it sounds , restaurants and sometimes use it on purpose to seem warm and unfussy.
You hear it in phrases like 'peel the spuds', 'meat and two veg and a few spuds', 'fish and chips made with proper spuds'你會在像 'peel the spuds'、'meat and two veg and a few spuds'、'fish and chips made with proper spuds' 這樣的說法裡聽到它 Because it sounds homely因為它聽起來很家常 restaurants and cookbooks sometimes use it on purpose餐廳和食譜有時會故意使用它 to seem warm and unfussy讓人感覺溫暖、不拘小節
There is also an older, quite different meaning: a small narrow or digging tool for cutting weeds — that is in fact the original sense, and the potato meaning probably grew out of it. Most students will only ever meet the potato one.
There is also an older, quite different meaning它還有一個更早、完全不同的意思 a small narrow spade or digging tool for cutting weeds指一種用來除草的窄小鏟子或挖土工具 that is in fact the original sense這其實才是最原本的意思 and the potato meaning probably grew out of it馬鈴薯這個意思大概是從它衍生出來的 Most students will only ever meet the potato one大部分學生大概只會遇到馬鈴薯這個意思
組成From Middle English 'spudde', a small knife or digging tool; the origin beyond that is unknown, though it is probably related to Old Norse 'spjót' meaning spear. The potato sense seems to have appeared first in New Zealand and Australian speech.
原始詞典資料17 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
spudnoun/spʌd/
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informalA potato.
- We were peeling spuds on afternoon detail back of the lodge at summer camp — Billy Dean and I, and two or three more — and as usual arguing about whether the camp work ought to be done that way or not[…]
- 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.
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informalA 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.
- He was getting tall too, and his trousers were short even though his turn-ups had been turned down, and he'd got a spud in his socks where his shoe rubbed where he trod over trying to walk bow-legged to look like a cowboy.
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businessconstructionmanufacturingA 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.
- For removing or tightening radiator spud nut.
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obsoleteAnything short and thick.
- As I turned out of the wood, I heard the shrill tone of infant wailing; and as I came towards the cottage, I saw a fine flaxen-headed urchin, some six or seven years old, stamping and beating himself with his clenched little spuds of fists, in a perfect ecstasy of passion […]
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obsoletedialectalA piece of dough boiled in fat.
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slangA testicle.
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obsoleteA dagger.
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A digging fork with three broad prongs.
另外 4 個記錄的用法
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A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc.
- 1728, Jonathan Swift, A Pastoral Dialogue, 1910, William Browning (editor), The Poems of Jonathan Swift, Volume 2, 2004, Gutenberg eBook #13621, 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.
- 1885, Richard Jefferies, After London: or Wild England, 2004 [1905], Gutenberg eBook #13944, Deprived of motion by the blow of the club, it can, on the other hand, be picked up without trouble and without the aid of a dog, and if not dead is despatched by a twist of the Bushman's fingers or a thrust from his spud. The spud is at once his dagger, his knife and fork, his chisel, his grub-axe, and his gouge. It is a piece of iron (rarely or never of steel, for he does not know how to harden it) about ten inches long, an inch and a half wide at the top or broadest end, where it is shaped and sharpened like a chisel, only with the edge not straight but sloping, and from thence tapering to a point at the other, the pointed part being four-sided, like a nail.
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A barking spud; a long-handled tool for removing bark from logs.
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A movable post through a sleeve in the hull of a work barge to anchor it to the bottom of a body of water.
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broadcastingfilmmediaA short central rod in a lighting fixture, for attachment to the light.
- This spigot (spud) is used to support the lamp, and allows it to be turned from side to side. The spud fits into a socket in a bracket (receptable^([sic])) or a C-clamp. This fixture enables you to suspend the lighting fixture from an overhead bar […]
spudverb/spʌd/
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To dig up weeds with a spud.
- There was thistle-spudding all over the Marsh; an army of thistles, an army of spudders.
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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.
- A rope called the jerk line is attached to the wrist pin of the band-wheel crank, brought inside the derrick, and attached to the part of the drilling cable which extends from the crown pulley to the bull-wheel shaft by a curved metal slide called a spudding shoe. (See fig. 8.)
- When a well is spudded, the drilling assembly is loosely tied to the guide wires with 1/2″ manila rope.
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businessconstructionmanufacturingTo remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.
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To set up a recreational vehicle (RV) at a campsite, typically by leveling the RV and connecting it to electric, water, or sewer hookups.
spudname/spʌd/
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A game for three or more players, involving the gradual elimination of players by throwing and catching a ball.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。