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spud
English
Etymology
From Middle English spudde (“small knife”). Origin unknown; probably related to Danish spyd, Old Norse spjót (“spear”), German Spieß (“spear; spike; skewer”). Compare English spit (“sharp, pointed rod”). The use of the term for a potato was originally in British dialect and slang usage.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp?d/
- enPR: sp?d
- Rhymes: -?d
Noun
spud (plural spuds)
- (informal) A potato. [from 1845]
- 1927, Boys' Life (May 1927, page 8)
- 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 […]
- 1927, Boys' Life (May 1927, page 8)
- (informal) A hole in a sock.
- 1958, M, K. Joseph, I'll Soldier No More: A Novel,
- 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.
- 1990, Ray Salisbury, Sweet Thursday: A Novel,
- 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.
- 2000, Christopher Nolan, The Banyan Tree: A Novel,
- His wife was darning a sock, running a needle and yarn across and back, over and under, up and down, gradually filling in the big spud-hole in her husband's sock.
- 2007, Trevor Griffiths, Sam, Sam in Theatre Plays One,
- (Already becoming absorbed in his feet through the giant spud in his sock) Anyway, I'm er, I'm sorry. A quite unnecessary embarrassment for you. (He removes sock completely, begins rhythmic rubbing of webs)
- 1958, M, K. Joseph, I'll Soldier No More: A Novel,
- (plumbing) A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends.
- (obsolete) Anything short and thick.
- (obsolete, US, dialect) A piece of dough boiled in fat.
- (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
- (obsolete) A dagger. [from mid-15th c.]
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Holland to this entry?)
- A digging fork with three broad prongs.
- A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc. [From 1660s.]
- 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.
- 1925, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves Takes Charge, Carry On, Jeeves, 2008, Arrow Books, page 19,
- A most respectable old Johnnie, don't you know. Doesn't do a thing nowadays but dig in the garden with a spud.
- 1728, Jonathan Swift, A Pastoral Dialogue, 1910, William Browning (editor), The Poems of Jonathan Swift, Volume 2, 2004, Gutenberg eBook #13621,
- A barking spud; a long-handled tool for removing bark from logs.
- (film, television) A short central rod in a lighting fixture, for attachment to the light.
- 1991, Gerald Millerson, The Technique of Lighting for Television and Film (page 299)
- 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 […]
- 1991, Gerald Millerson, The Technique of Lighting for Television and Film (page 299)
Derived terms
- sofa spud
- spud cocky
- spudger
- spud gun
- spudlike
Translations
Verb
spud (third-person singular simple present spuds, present participle spudding, simple past and past participle spudded)
- (drilling) 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.
- 1911, Isaiah Bowman, United States Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 257: Well-Drilling Methods, page 46,
- 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.)
- 1999, Steve Devereux, Drilling for Oil & Gas: A Nontechnical Guide, page 86,
- When a well is spudded, the drilling assembly is loosely tied to the guide wires with 1/2? manila rope.
- 2008, Ruwan Rajapakse, Pile Design and Construction Rules of Thumb, page 367,
- Spudding is the process of lifting and dropping the pile constantly until the obstruction is broken into pieces. Obviously, spudding cannot be done with lighter piles (timber or pipe piles). Concrete piles and steel H-piles are good candidates for spudding.
- 2008, J. K. Lasser, J.K. Lasser?s Your Income Tax: 2009, Professional Edition, page 238,
- Prepayments of drilling expenses are deductible by tax-shelter investors only if the well is “spudded” within 90 days after the close of the taxable year in which the prepayment was made, and the deduction is limited to the original amount of the investment.
- 1911, Isaiah Bowman, United States Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 257: Well-Drilling Methods, page 46,
- (roofing) To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.
- (camping) To set up a recreational vehicle (RV) at a campsite, typically by leveling the RV and connecting it to electric, water, and/or sewer hookups.
Derived terms
- spudding shoe
Related terms
- spudding (noun)
Proper noun
spud
- A game for three or more players, involving the gradual elimination of players by throwing and catching a ball.
Anagrams
- Dsup, PDUs, PSDU, UDPs, dups, puds
Lushootseed
Etymology
From English spoon.
Noun
spud
- spoon
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English spudde.
Noun
spud
- a knife
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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spad
English
Etymology 1
Shortening of special adviser.
Alternative forms
- SpAd, SpAD
Noun
spad (plural spads)
- (UK politics, informal) A government adviser, often in a political or media role.
- 2009, Ben Wright, Hidden world of the political advisers, BBC:
- A successful stint as a spad can be a crucial political apprenticeship - as many of the current crop of professional politicians including the Miliband brothers, David Cameron and George Osborne can testify - so long as they stay in the dark.
- 2012, Avoid The Thick of It-style spad appointments, ministers told, The Guardian:
- The hit BBC sitcom satirising the inner workings of Whitehall and the so-called spads contains "more than a grain of truth", the head of the cross-party public administration select committee has warned.
- 2009, Ben Wright, Hidden world of the political advisers, BBC:
Etymology 2
Noun
spad (plural spads)
- (mining) A nail one or two inches long, of iron, brass, tin, or tinner iron, with a hole through the flattened head, used to mark stations in underground surveying.
Anagrams
- APDS, ASPD, PDAs, SaPD, daps, pads
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?spat]
Noun
spad m
- fallout
Further reading
- spad in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- spad in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
spad
- imperative of spada
Polish
Etymology
Deverbal of spada?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spat/
Noun
spad m inan
- (printing) bleed
- A fallen nut or fruit.
- (collective) fallen nuts or fruit
- slope, gradient
Declension
Further reading
- spad in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- spad in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish spadh. Cognate with Icelandic spað and Danish spad.
Noun
spad n
- broth, decoction
- (colloquial) a body of water
Usage notes
Colloquial sense often used in the abbreviated definite singular form spat, for example hoppa i spat ("jump in the water") or trilla i spat ("fall in the water").
Declension
References
- spad in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- spad in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
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