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"etymology_text": "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 perhaps first used in New Zealand and Australian dialect and slang.",
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"text": "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[…]",
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"ref": "1981, Colin Welland, Chariots of Fire, spoken by Rev. J.D. Liddell",
"text": "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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"sense": "informal: potato",
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"roman": "kartoplýna",
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"ref": "1958, Michael Kennedy Joseph, I'll Soldier No More: A Novel",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1990, Ray Salisbury, Sweet Thursday: A Novel",
"text": "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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"ref": "2000, Christopher Nolan, The Banyan Tree: A Novel",
"text": "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.",
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{
"ref": "2007, Trevor Griffiths, “Sam, Sam”, in Theatre Plays One",
"text": "(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)",
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"(informal) A hole in a sock."
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"ref": "2003, Rick Peters, Plumbing Basics, page 103",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "2011, Steve Ettlinger, The Complete Illustrated Guide to Everything Sold in Hardware Stores",
"text": "For removing or tightening radiator spud nut.",
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"ref": "1844, Richard Sainthill, An Olla Podrida: Or, Scraps, Numismatic, Antiquarian, and Literary",
"text": "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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"text": "1728, Jonathan Swift, A Pastoral Dialogue, 1910, William Browning (editor), The Poems of Jonathan Swift, Volume 2, 2004, Gutenberg eBook #13621,\nMy 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."
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"text": "1885, Richard Jefferies, After London: or Wild England, 2004 [1905], Gutenberg eBook #13944,\nDeprived 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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"ref": "1925, P. G. Wodehouse, “Jeeves Takes Charge”, in Carry On, Jeeves, Arrow Books, published 2008, page 19",
"text": "A most respectable old Johnnie, don't you know. Doesn't do a thing nowadays but dig in the garden with a spud.",
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"code": "cs",
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"word": "zahradnická lopatka"
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"word": "са́па"
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"television"
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"feminine"
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"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "cs",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "informal: potato",
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"masculine"
],
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},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "informal: potato",
"word": "erteple"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "informal: potato",
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"masculine"
],
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},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "informal: potato",
"word": "pottu"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "informal: potato",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "informal: potato",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
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"sense": "informal: potato",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
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"code": "he",
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"sense": "informal: potato",
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"masculine"
],
"topics": [
"flowery",
"lifestyle"
],
"word": "בּוּלְבּוּס"
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"code": "is",
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"sense": "informal: potato",
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "informal: potato",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
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"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "informal: potato",
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],
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "informal: potato",
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"masculine"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "informal: potato",
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},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "informal: potato",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "informal: potato",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "карто́фелина"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "kartoplýna",
"sense": "informal: potato",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "hole in a sock",
"word": "silmäpako"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "anything short and thick",
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "piece of dough boiled in fat",
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "slang: testicle",
"word": "kulkunen"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "digging fork",
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"code": "fi",
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"masculine"
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"code": "bg",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"code": "cs",
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "spade-like tool used for digging out weeds",
"word": "zahradnická lopatka"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "spade-like tool used for digging out weeds",
"word": "puutarhakuokka"
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"code": "lv",
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"sense": "spade-like tool used for digging out weeds",
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"masculine"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
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{
"code": "pl",
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"masculine"
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"sense": "spade-like tool used for digging out weeds",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "моты́га"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "spade-like tool used for digging out weeds",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"code": "uk",
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"roman": "motýka",
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"feminine"
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},
{
"code": "uk",
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{
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"feminine"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "barking spud",
"word": "kuorimapetkel"
}
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"ref": "1911, Isaiah Bowman, United States Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 257: Well-Drilling Methods, page 46",
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{
"ref": "2008, Ruwan Rajapakse, Pile Design and Construction Rules of Thumb, page 367",
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{
"ref": "2008, J. K. Lasser, J.K. Lasser′s Your Income Tax: 2009, Professional, Edition, page 238",
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