| 单词 | spud |
| 释义 | spud (once / 12312 pages) nv WORD FAMILY spud: spudded, spudding, spuds USAGE EXAMPLESWith roast spuds, Yorkshire pudding and stuffing, it is true that Christmas dinner is perhaps not the healthiest meal of the year. BBC(Dec 23, 2016) Mashed potatoes have been a part of the western diet since Spanish conquistadors brought the spud back to Europe from South America. Los Angeles Times(Nov 23, 2016) Show your spuds a little love — starting with the butter. Los Angeles Times(Nov 21, 2016) 1n an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland Syn|Hypo|Hyper Irish potato, murphy, potato, tater, white potato baked potato potato that has been cooked by baking it in an oven chips, french fries, french-fried potatoes, friesstrips of potato fried in deep fat home fries, home-fried potatoessliced pieces of potato fried in a pan until brown and crisp mashed potatopotato that has been peeled and boiled and then mashed Uruguay potatosimilar to the common potato jacket potatoa baked potato served with the jacket on starches foodstuff rich in natural starch (especially potatoes, rice, bread) solanaceous vegetableany of several fruits of plants of the family Solanaceae; especially of the genera Solanum, Capsicum, and Lycopersicon root vegetableany of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers 2n a sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds Syn|Hyper stump spud hand shovel a shovel that is operated by hand 3v produce buds, branches, or germinate Syn|Hyper bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, shoot, sprout germinate cause to grow or sprout grow increase in size by natural process 4v initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum The well was spudded in April Hyper bore, drill make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool |
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