spud
noun/spʌd/
/spʌd/
(especially British English, informal)- a potatoTopics Foodc2Word Originlate Middle English (denoting a short knife): of unknown origin. The sense ‘potato’ (dating from the mid 19th cent.) was originally slang and dialect.
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