spud meaning

spud as a noun

1. an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland

   Synonyms: potato, white potato, Irish potato, murphy, tater

   Type of: root vegetable, starches, solanaceous vegetable

   Kinds: baked potato, french fries, home fries, mashed potato, Uruguay potato

2. a sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds

   Synonyms: stump spud

   Type of: hand shovel

spud as a verb

1. initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum
   • The well was spudded in April

   Type of: bore

2. produce buds, branches, or germinate
   • the potatoes sprouted

   Synonyms: shoot, germinate, pullulate, bourgeon, burgeon forth, sprout

   Type of: grow

How to pronounce spud

spud is pronounced /spʌd/ in American English. It has 1 syllable.

Words that rhyme with spud

• flood
• bud
• blood
• thud
• mud
• scud
• stud
• dud
• crud
• rudd