In his tavern The Spud Inn, Tom offers a wide range of potato dishes.
Source: tatoeba (10812227)
Spud
//spʌd//
Synonyms for "spud" (36 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (10)
Verb(1 words)
Noun(2 words)
Related words (18)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
7 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
15 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entrieshas context
8 entriesis a
1 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
15 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
43 translations across 17 languages.
Belarusian
1 entries- бу́льбіна noun (informal: potato)
Bulgarian
2 entries- картоф noun (informal: potato)
- малка мотика noun (spade-like tool used for digging out weeds)
Czech
4 entries- brambora noun (informal: potato)
- erteple noun (informal: potato)
- rýček noun (spade-like tool used for digging out weeds)
- sázecí rýč noun (spade-like tool used for digging out weeds)
Dutch
1 entries- pieper noun (informal: potato)
Finnish
4 entries- hara noun (digging fork)
- kukkahara noun (digging fork)
- kulkunen noun (slang: testicle)
- kuorimapetkel noun (barking spud)
French
2 entries- Dauphin Dauphine name (child game)
- patate noun (informal: potato)
German
1 entries- Kartoffel noun (informal: potato)
Greek
1 entries- πατάτα noun (informal: potato)
Hebrew
1 entries- בּוּלְבּוּס noun (informal: potato)
Icelandic
1 entries- kartafla noun (informal: potato)
Italian
2 entries- La palla avvelenata name (child game)
- patata noun (informal: potato)
Latvian
1 entries- kaplis noun (spade-like tool used for digging out weeds)
Lithuanian
1 entries- bulvė noun (informal: potato)
Polish
4 entries- kartofel noun (informal: potato)
- pyra noun (informal: potato)
- rydel noun (spade-like tool used for digging out weeds)
- rydelek noun (spade-like tool used for digging out weeds)
Portuguese
2 entries- batata noun (informal: potato)
- escardilho noun (digging fork)
Russian
3 entries- карто́фелина noun (informal: potato)
- моты́га noun (spade-like tool used for digging out weeds)
- са́па noun (spade-like tool used for digging out weeds)
Ukrainian
4 entries- картопли́на noun (informal: potato)
- моти́ка noun (spade-like tool used for digging out weeds)
- са́пка noun (spade-like tool used for digging out weeds)
- сапа́ noun (spade-like tool used for digging out weeds)
Sample sentences
21 total sentences available.
Spud means the same thing as potato.
Source: tatoeba (13055129)
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[…]
Source: wiktionary
You can praise God by peeling a spud if you peel it to perfection. Don't compromise. Compromise is a language of the devil. Run in God's name, and let the world stand back and in wonder.
Source: wiktionary
Showing 4 of 21 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.