Spud is a casual term for potato, often used in informal speech or writing.

Colloquial Use

Some might confuse 'spud' for a technical term because of its non-food-related meanings.

Common Misunderstanding

In gardening, a spud is a sharp tool for digging or piercing soil, not for cutting or pruning.

Gardening Tool

A spud in gardening has a more specialized use compared to a general shovel or hoe.

Specific Function

In plumbing, a spud is specifically for tasks like tightening, not for everyday fixes.

Plumbing Specific

Using 'spud' in plumbing is part of a technical vocabulary, unfamiliar to those outside the trade.

Technical Vocabulary

The term spud in the oil industry is jargon for a complex process unfamiliar to the general public.

Industry Jargon

Spud refers to the very beginning of an oil well drilling operation, implying initiation.

Starting Point

 is the spot where I'm gonna build my fish camp and uh it's kind of an ideal location for me because my house it's only about five miles from here work on taking the bark off of these so they can sit out here and bake and kind of dry and not be so slippery I got a log spud but I used hopefully these

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 Would it even have started? When you think about it like this, many major milestones in world history can all be at least partially attributed to the simple spud from the Peruvian hilltops.