subs. (common).—1. A potato: see MURPHY. Hence SPUDDY (costers’) = a baked-potato man.
1887. The Field, 12 March. But it was evidently a ‘speed the plough,’ a speed the SPUDS, and the seeds day.
1901. Troddles and Us, xix. Enough to revolt an Irishman’s pig, and set him against SPUDS for the rest of his natural life.
1901. Sporting Times, 27 April, 1, 4. Annie used to fetch the SPUDS and greens.
2. (common).—A dwarf; a short thickset person.
3. (nursery).—A baby’s hand.
4. (American).—In pl. = money: see RHINO.
5. (common).—A spade.
