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How to pronounce “spud”
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Pronunciation guide for spud
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of spud with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 3 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Fred Jansen: How to land on a comet 17 minutes
We had hoped for some kind of spud-like thing
- Definition summary
- (informal) A potato. [from 1845]
Example 1 of 3
How to pronounce spud
Fred Jansen: How to land on a comet 17 minutes
We had hoped for some kind of spud-like thing
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “spud”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (informal) A potato. [from 1845]
- (informal) A hole in a sock.
- (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.]
- A digging fork with three broad prongs.
- A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc. [from 1660s]
- A barking spud; a long-handled tool for removing bark from logs.
- A movable post through a sleeve in the hull of a work barge to anchor it to the bottom of a body of water.
- (film, television) A short central rod in a lighting fixture, for attachment to the light.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To dig up weeds with a spud.
- (drilling, transitive) 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.
- (roofing, transitive) To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.
- (camping, transitive) To set up a recreational vehicle (RV) at a campsite, typically by leveling the RV and connecting it to electric, water, or sewer hookups.
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