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  • noun Plural form of spud.

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Examples

  • The spuds were a bit bland (and I have never boiled tatties before, and so I had no idea how long to do them for ... oh, and I recently learned not to put them in the fridge ...), and I am not sure why I decided to dice the chicken, but it wasn't bad at all actually, and it actually looked quite good too (see photo).

    TravelPod.com TravelStream? ? Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • The spuds were a bit bland (and I have never boiled tatties before, and so I had no idea how long to do them for ... oh, and I recently learned not to put them in the fridge ...), and I am not sure why I decided to dice the chicken, but it wasn't bad at all actually, and it actually looked quite good too (see photo).

    TravelPod.com TravelStream? ? Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • Danzorz is simply projecting his insecurities on those around him and harming pure, honest and hardworking people like dear old Dommyboy with his rotten verbal falsehoods. shall from this day be known as spuds magoo believes Danzorz to be a cultist, also likes violins and roses.

    WarCry Network : Latest News 2009

  • If the menu had not mentioned potatoes at all, I would barely have noticed what kind of spuds came with my meal.

    I Want My Garlic Mashed Potatoes! | Motivational Humor from the Motivational Smart Ass! 2009

  • "bagged" him in the ankle and he had crawled into the cellar -- still with his sandbag of "spuds" -- to wait until someone came by.

    Mud and Khaki Sketches from Flanders and France Vernon Bartlett 1938

  • Dinner consisted of large beef and ham sandwiches, and "spuds," and jam roly-poly.

    Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light

  • 1-1 I reckon raif … the spuds are the Chavs bogey team aren't they! raif - i would hope the spuds lose so they dont have a win on the board, but it would be better for us for them to win!

    WordPress.com News 2008

  • Whilst the brown mothers smoked and carried their babies, the men bore guns adorned with brass tacks, or leaned upon their short, straight, conical "spuds" and hoes, long-handled bits of iron whose points, after African fashion, passed through the wood.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • A barge working for Exxon Mobil Corp was driving long pipes called "spuds" to anchor the barge in place, and one may have hit the pipeline operated by Chevron, a Coast Guard spokesman said.

    Scientific American 2010

  • Rate my potato - we tell you how to get 'the right score, writes FIONNUALA FALLON� MANY OF us affectionately call potatoes' spuds ', a peculiar sounding word, the origins of which are lost in

    WN.com - Articles related to Orange juice jumps 10 percent on crop report 2009

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