English Dictionary

spud

IPA（発音記号）

/spʌd/

名詞

くだけた表現 廃用 アメリカ英語 方言 通例複数形 俗語

(informal) A potato. / (informal) A hole in a sock. / (plumbing) A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends. / (obsolete) Anything short and thick.

日本語の意味

（口語）じゃがいも / （口語）靴下の穴 / （配管用語）両端にねじ穴がある短いナット（ファスナーの一種） / （古語）短くて太いもの

I grabbed a spud from the bag to bake for dinner.

夕食に焼くために袋からジャガイモを一つ取り出した。

意味（1）

(informal) A potato.

We were peeling spuds on afternoon detail back of the lodge at summer camp — Billy Dean and I, and two or three more — and as usual arguing about whether the camp work ought to be done that way or not […]

意味（2）

(informal) A hole in a sock.

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.

意味（3）

(plumbing) A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends.

With the tank resting upside down on an old towel or blanket, use a spud wrench or a large pair of channel-type pliers to loosen the spud nut.

意味（4）

(obsolete) Anything short and thick.

As I turned out of the wood, I heard the shrill tone of infant wailing; and as I came towards the cottage, I saw a fine flaxen-headed urchin, some six or seven years old, stamping and beating himself with his clenched little spuds of fists, in a perfect ecstasy of passion […]

意味（5）

(obsolete, US, dialect) A piece of dough boiled in fat.

意味（6）

(slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.

意味（7）

(obsolete) A dagger.

意味（8）

A digging fork with three broad prongs.

意味（9）

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

My love to Sheelah is more firmly fixt, / Than strongest weeds that grow these stones betwixt: / My spud these nettles from the stone can part; / No knife so keen to weed thee from my heart.

意味（10）

A barking spud; a long-handled tool for removing bark from logs.

意味（11）

(film, television) A short central rod in a lighting fixture, for attachment to the light.

This spigot (spud) is used to support the lamp, and allows it to be turned from side to side. The spud fits into a socket in a bracket (receptable) or a C-clamp. This fixture enables you to suspend the lighting fixture from an overhead bar […]

spuds （ plural ）