spud

1. 1.

   initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum

   “The well was spudded in April”

   Broaderbore
2. 2.

   produce buds, branches, or germinate

   “the potatoes sprouted”

   Synonymsshootgerminatepullulatebourgeonburgeon forthsprout

   Broadergrow

Other forms of spud

plural

spuds·

past tense or participle

spudded

present participle

spudding

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about spud

What does spud mean?

spud means "an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in spud?

spud has 1 syllable: spud. In IPA it is /ˈspʌd/.

What is another word for spud?

Close synonyms include potato, white potato, Irish potato, murphy, tater. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is spud a common word?

spud is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.