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home-fried potatoes vs spud

spud vs home-fried potatoes

home-fried potatoes and spud both are nouns.

home-fried potatoes is not a verb while spud is a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
home-fried potatoes Yes No No No
spud Yes No Yes No
As nouns, spud is a hypernym of home-fried potatoes; that is, spud is a word with a broader meaning than home-fried potatoes:
  • home-fried potatoes: sliced pieces of potato fried in a pan until brown and crisp
  • spud: an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland
Other hypernyms of home-fried potatoes include Irish potato, murphy, potato, tater, white potato.
home-fried potatoes (noun) spud (noun)
sliced pieces of potato fried in a pan until brown and crisp a sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds
an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland
home-fried potatoes (verb) spud (verb)
produce buds, branches, or germinate
initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum
Difference between home-fried potatoes and spud

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