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Is spud a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word spud is a Scrabble US word. The word spud is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is spud a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word spud is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

S1P3U1D2

Is spud a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word spud is a Words With Friends word. The word spud is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (3 found)

DUPS,PUDS,SPUD,

3-letter words (7 found)

DUP,PUD,PUS,SUD,SUP,UDS,UPS,

2-letter words (2 found)

UP,US,

You can make 12 words from spud according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of spud

spud psud supd uspd pusd upsd spdu psdu sdpu dspu pdsu dpsu sudp usdp sdup dsup udsp dusp puds upds pdus dpus udps dups

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word spud. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in spud.

Definitions and meaning of spud

spud

Etymology

From Middle English spudde (“small knife”). Origin unknown; probably related to Danish spyd, Old Norse spjót (“spear”), German Spieß (“spear; spike; skewer”). Compare English spit (“sharp, pointed rod”). The use of the term for a potato was perhaps first used in New Zealand and Australian dialect and slang.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /spʌd/
  • enPR: spŭd
  • Rhymes: -ʌd

Noun

spud (plural spuds)

  1. (informal) A potato. [from 1845]
  2. (informal) A hole in a sock.
  3. (plumbing) A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends.
  4. (obsolete) Anything short and thick.
  5. (obsolete, US, dialect) A piece of dough boiled in fat.
  6. (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
  7. (obsolete) A dagger. [from mid-15th c.]
  8. A digging fork with three broad prongs.
  9. A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc. [from 1660s]
    • 1728, Jonathan Swift, A Pastoral Dialogue, 1910, William Browning (editor), The Poems of Jonathan Swift, Volume 2, 2004, Gutenberg eBook #13621,
      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.
    • 1885, Richard Jefferies, After London: or Wild England, 2004 [1905], Gutenberg eBook #13944,
      Deprived of motion by the blow of the club, it can, on the other hand, be picked up without trouble and without the aid of a dog, and if not dead is despatched by a twist of the Bushman's fingers or a thrust from his spud. The spud is at once his dagger, his knife and fork, his chisel, his grub-axe, and his gouge. It is a piece of iron (rarely or never of steel, for he does not know how to harden it) about ten inches long, an inch and a half wide at the top or broadest end, where it is shaped and sharpened like a chisel, only with the edge not straight but sloping, and from thence tapering to a point at the other, the pointed part being four-sided, like a nail.
  10. A barking spud; a long-handled tool for removing bark from logs.
  11. (film, television) A short central rod in a lighting fixture, for attachment to the light.

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Verb

spud (third-person singular simple present spuds, present participle spudding, simple past and past participle spudded)

  1. To dig up weeds with a spud.
  2. (drilling) To begin drilling an oil well; to drill by moving the drill bit and shaft up and down, or by raising and dropping a bit.
  3. (roofing) To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.
  4. (camping) To set up a recreational vehicle (RV) at a campsite, typically by leveling the RV and connecting it to electric, water, and/or sewer hookups.

Derived terms

  • spudder
  • spudding shoe

Related terms

  • spudding (noun)

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Proper noun

spud

  1. A game for three or more players, involving the gradual elimination of players by throwing and catching a ball.

Translations

References

  • spud (game) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Dsup, PDUs, PSDU, UDPs, dups, puds

Lushootseed

Etymology

From English spoon.

Noun

spud

  1. spoon

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English spudde.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /spʊd/

Noun

spud

  1. knife
    Synonym: kunnife

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 69

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