English words for 'Pronunciation spelling of potato.'
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- (Singlish, Manglish, rarer, humorous, literally) To eat potatoes.
- (Singlish, Manglish, stative, idiomatic, derogatory) Of an ethnically Chinese person, to be mostly monolingual in English and unable to speak Chinese well.
- (Singlish, Manglish, stative, idiomatic, derogatory) Of a person, to be westernized; to have abandoned one's own cultural traditions in favor of a westernized lifestyle.
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- (informal) A potato.
- A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc.
- A barking spud; a long-handled tool for removing bark from logs.
- A movable post through a sleeve in the hull of a work barge to anchor it to the bottom of a body of water.
- (film, television) A short central rod in a lighting fixture, for attachment to the light.
- A digging fork with three broad prongs.
- (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
- (plumbing) A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends.
- (informal) A hole in a sock.
- a sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds
- an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland
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- (camping, transitive) To set up a recreational vehicle (RV) at a campsite, typically by leveling the RV and connecting it to electric, water, or sewer hookups.
- (transitive) To dig up weeds with a spud.
- (drilling, transitive) 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.
- (roofing, transitive) To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.
- initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum
- produce buds, branches, or germinate
noun
- Alternative spelling of ravin.
- (uncountable) A jet-black, often glossy, colour, like that of the plumage of a raven (etymology 1 sense 1).
- (countable) Any of several, generally large, species of birds in the genus Corvus with lustrous black plumage; especially the common raven (Corvus corax).
- (historical, countable) A flag bearing a raven (etymology 1 sense 1), formerly used by some Viking leaders
- (uncountable, metonymic) preceded by the: Viking military power.
- (chiefly fiction, countable) A person, especially a man, with black hair.
- large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail
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- Followed by about, after, or for: to go after or seek for something, especially booty or spoils; to maraud, to plunder; also (generally), to move about wildly and cause damage; to rampage.
- To eat greedily; also, followed by on or upon: of an animal: to prey on.
- (figurative) To absorb or take in (something, such as information) greedily; also, to approach or pounce on (someone) like prey.
- Originally followed by with: to experience great hunger; to be ravenous.
- (figurative) To take and exploit or make use of greedily.
- (figurative) Sometimes followed by after or for: to have a strong craving or desire for, or to do, something; to crave, to desire, to yearn.
- Sometimes followed by after or for: to have a ravenous appetite or craving for food or prey.
- Sometimes followed by about or on: to move about searching for food or prey ravenously.
- prey on or hunt for
- obtain or seize by violence
- eat greedily
- feed greedily
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- (Scotland) A potato.
- The edible, starchy, tuberous root of that plant, a tropical staple food.
- Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated.
- (Malaysia, Singapore) Taro.
- An orange-brown colour, like the flesh of the yam.
- (New Zealand) An oca; a tuber from the species Oxalis tuberosa.
- (US) A sweet potato; a tuber from the species Ipomoea batatas.
- (regional, Cumberland) Home.
- edible tuberous root of various yam plants of the genus Dioscorea grown in the tropics world-wide for food
- any of a number of tropical vines of the genus Dioscorea many having edible tuberous roots
- edible tuber of any of several yams
- sweet potato with deep orange flesh that remains moist when baked
verb
noun
- (informal) A potato.
- A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc.
- A barking spud; a long-handled tool for removing bark from logs.
- A movable post through a sleeve in the hull of a work barge to anchor it to the bottom of a body of water.
- (film, television) A short central rod in a lighting fixture, for attachment to the light.
- A digging fork with three broad prongs.
- (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
- (plumbing) A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends.
- (informal) A hole in a sock.
- a sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds
- an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland
name
verb
- (camping, transitive) To set up a recreational vehicle (RV) at a campsite, typically by leveling the RV and connecting it to electric, water, or sewer hookups.
- (transitive) To dig up weeds with a spud.
- (drilling, transitive) 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.
- (roofing, transitive) To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.
- initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum
- produce buds, branches, or germinate
noun
- Alternative spelling of ravin.
- (uncountable) A jet-black, often glossy, colour, like that of the plumage of a raven (etymology 1 sense 1).
- (countable) Any of several, generally large, species of birds in the genus Corvus with lustrous black plumage; especially the common raven (Corvus corax).
- (historical, countable) A flag bearing a raven (etymology 1 sense 1), formerly used by some Viking leaders
- (uncountable, metonymic) preceded by the: Viking military power.
- (chiefly fiction, countable) A person, especially a man, with black hair.
- large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail
adj
verb
- Followed by about, after, or for: to go after or seek for something, especially booty or spoils; to maraud, to plunder; also (generally), to move about wildly and cause damage; to rampage.
- To eat greedily; also, followed by on or upon: of an animal: to prey on.
- (figurative) To absorb or take in (something, such as information) greedily; also, to approach or pounce on (someone) like prey.
- Originally followed by with: to experience great hunger; to be ravenous.
- (figurative) To take and exploit or make use of greedily.
- (figurative) Sometimes followed by after or for: to have a strong craving or desire for, or to do, something; to crave, to desire, to yearn.
- Sometimes followed by after or for: to have a ravenous appetite or craving for food or prey.
- Sometimes followed by about or on: to move about searching for food or prey ravenously.
- prey on or hunt for
- obtain or seize by violence
- eat greedily
- feed greedily
noun
- (Scotland) A potato.
- The edible, starchy, tuberous root of that plant, a tropical staple food.
- Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated.
- (Malaysia, Singapore) Taro.
- An orange-brown colour, like the flesh of the yam.
- (New Zealand) An oca; a tuber from the species Oxalis tuberosa.
- (US) A sweet potato; a tuber from the species Ipomoea batatas.
- (regional, Cumberland) Home.
- edible tuberous root of various yam plants of the genus Dioscorea grown in the tropics world-wide for food
- any of a number of tropical vines of the genus Dioscorea many having edible tuberous roots
- edible tuber of any of several yams
- sweet potato with deep orange flesh that remains moist when baked
verb
verb
- (Singlish, Manglish, rarer, humorous, literally) To eat potatoes.
- (Singlish, Manglish, stative, idiomatic, derogatory) Of an ethnically Chinese person, to be mostly monolingual in English and unable to speak Chinese well.
- (Singlish, Manglish, stative, idiomatic, derogatory) Of a person, to be westernized; to have abandoned one's own cultural traditions in favor of a westernized lifestyle.