2006-07-07 13:51:41 · 4 answers · asked by Beth_Bitch 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
The word originally meant a dagger in Old English. Then it became the name of a tool used for digging up roots and potatoes. Around the 19th century, the name of the tool had 'rubbed off' on the potato itself, so we now call potatoes 'spuds'.
2006-07-07 14:00:19 · answer #1 · answered by george 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitions
spud
noun
1. colloq
A potato.
2. A small narrow digging tool with a chisel-shaped blade that is used for pulling up weeds, etc.
verb spudded, spudding
1. To pull up (weeds) using a spud.
2. To start drilling an oil-well by boring a hole in the seabed.
Form: spud in (also)
Etymology: 14c as spudde short knife.
2006-07-07 22:22:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
original gaelic for potatoe sounds like spud.
2006-07-07 13:57:22 · answer #3 · answered by rodmod 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
MR POTATO HEAD
2006-07-07 13:55:00 · answer #4 · answered by LARCO 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋