Definizione monolingua

spud

spud (third-person singular simple present spuds, present participle spudding, simple past and past participle spudded)

1. To begin drilling an oil well.
2. (roofing) To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.
3. (OE chat) To be asleep in chat

spud (plural spuds)

1. A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc.
2. (informal) A potato.
3. A hole in a sock.
   • 1958, M, K. Joseph, Ill 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 hed 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 husbands sock.

   • 2007, Trevor Griffiths, Sam, Sam in Theatre Plays One,

     (Already becoming absorbed in his feet through the giant spud in his sock) Anyway, Im er, Im sorry. A quite unnecessary embarrassment for you. (He removes sock completely, begins rhythmic rubbing of webs)

Definizione dizionario spud

	patata
	potato

Altri significati:

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

A hole in a sock.

a tool used for digging out weeds

(OE chat) To be asleep in chat

(informal) A potato.

To begin drilling an oil well.

A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc.