different between spud vs sud

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)

1. (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 […]

2. (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)

3. (plumbing) A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends.
4. (obsolete) Anything short and thick.
5. (obsolete, US, dialect) A piece of dough boiled in fat.
6. (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
7. (obsolete) A dagger. [from mid-15th c.]

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8. A digging fork with three broad prongs.
9. 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.

10. A barking spud; a long-handled tool for removing bark from logs.
11. (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 […]

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)

1. (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.

2. (roofing) To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.
3. (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

1. 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

1. spoon

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English spudde.

Noun

spud

1. 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

English

Etymology

From a variation of sod, itself a shortening of sodden. Related to seethe.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?d

Noun

sud (plural suds)

1. (informal) A bubble of lather or foam (the singular of suds).

Derived terms

• soapsud

Anagrams

• 'uds, DSU, DUs, UDS, USD, us'd

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• Sud

Etymology

Borrowed from French sud. Compare Romanian sud.

Noun

sud

1. south

See also

• datã/Datã
• vestu/Vestu, ascãpitatã
• nordu/Nordu, njadzã-noapti
• not/Not

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French sud, from Old English suþ, from Proto-Germanic *sunþr?.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?sut/

Noun

sud m (uncountable)

1. south

Synonyms

• migdia, migjorn

Antonyms

• nord

See also

(compass points) punt cardinal;

Further reading

• “sud” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sud” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “sud” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sud” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Corsican

Alternative forms

• sudu

Etymology

Borrowed from French sud. Cognates include Italian sud and Spanish sur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sud/
• Hyphenation: sud

Noun

sud m (uncountable)

1. south

References

• “sud, sudu” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Czech

Noun

sud m

1. barrel
2. keg party

Further reading

• sud in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• sud in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Etymology

From Middle French sud, from Old French su, sud (“south”), from Old English s?þ (“south”), from Proto-Germanic *sunþr?. More at south.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syd/

Noun

sud m (plural sud)

1. south

Synonyms

• midi

Antonyms

• nord

Further reading

• “sud” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• dus

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sud, from Old English suþ, from Proto-Germanic *sunþr?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sud/

Noun

sud m (invariable)

1. south

   Synonyms: meridione, mezzogiorno

   Antonym: nord

Derived terms

• sud-
• sudest, sud-est
• sudista
• sud-sud-est
• sud-sud-ovest
• sudovest, sud-ovest

See also

• est
• ovest
• punto cardinale

Norman

Alternative forms

• su (continental Normandy)

Etymology

From Old French sud, su (“south”), from Old English s?þ, from Proto-Germanic *sunþr?.

Pronunciation

Noun

sud m (invariable)

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) south

Occitan

Noun

sud m (uncountable)

1. south

   Antonym: nòrd

Further reading

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians, 2 edition, ?ISBN, page 935.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sud, from Old English suþ, from Proto-Germanic *sunþr?.

Noun

sud n (uncountable)

1. south

Declension

Synonyms

• miaz?zi (archaic, poetic)

Antonyms

• nord

Coordinate terms

• (compass points) punct cardinal;

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *s?d?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sû?d/

Noun

s?d m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. court
2. courthouse
3. tribunal
4. judgment

Declension

Related terms

• sudac

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *s?d?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sû?d/

Noun

s?d m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (regional) vessel
2. (regional) dish

Declension

References

• “sud” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
• “sud” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French sud.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sud/, [?suð?]

Noun

sud m (uncountable)

1. (Latin America) south

   Synonym: (more common) sur

Uzbek

Etymology

From Russian ??? (sud).

Noun

sud (plural sudlar)

1. court

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse súð.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??/, /s????d/, /sœ???r/

  Rhymes: -???ð

  (southern ð-dropping) Rhymes: -???, -???ð

  (ð-r merger) Rhymes: -???r, -???ð

Noun

sud f

1. (nautical, of a boat) A ship's side; boat edge, top part, edge around a boat, responding to railing on larger craft.

Derived terms

• båtsud
• sudband
• syd