fries vs spud
spud vs friesfries and spud both are nouns.
fries is not a verb while spud is a verb.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| fries | Yes | No | No | No |
| spud | Yes | No | Yes | No |
As nouns,
spud is a hypernym of
fries; that is, spud is a
word with a broader meaning than fries:
- fries: strips of potato fried in deep fat
- spud: an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland
| fries (noun) | spud (noun) |
|---|---|
| strips of potato fried in deep fat | a sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds |
| an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland |
| fries (verb) | spud (verb) |
|---|---|
| produce buds, branches, or germinate | |
| initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum |
Words related to "fries"
Words related to "spud"
- Irish potato
- Solanum tuberosum
- Uruguay potato
- baked potato
- bore
- bourgeon
- burgeon forth
- chips
- drill
- french fries
- french-fried potatoes
- fries
- germinate
- grow
- hand shovel
- home fries
- home-fried potatoes
- jacket
- mashed potato
- murphy
- potato
- pullulate
- root vegetable
- shoot
- slang
- solanaceous vegetable
- sprout
- starches
- stump spud
- tater
- white potato
- white potato vine
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