Lexicographical Neighbors of Spuddy
Literary usage of Spuddy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"Spud, (i) Any person, or thing, remarkably short of its kind. (2) A chisel for
weeds [GE]. spuddy. Very short and stumpy. *Spuds. Potatoes [WB]. ..."
2. Wild Wales: Its People, Language, and Scenery by George Henry Borrow (1907)
"... a short spuddy fellow, with a broad ugly face and with spectacles on his nose,
who talked very consequentially about "the service" and all that, ..."
3. Wild Wales: Its People, Language, and Scenery by George Henry Borrow (1901)
"As I went out of the coffee-room the spuddy, broad-faced military puppy with
spectacles was vociferating to the languishing military puppy, and to his old ..."
4. Wild Wales: its people, language, and scenery by George Henry Borrow (1865)
"As I went out of the coffee-room the spuddy, broad-faced military puppy with
spectacles was vociferating to the languishing military puppy, and to his old ..."
5. Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery by George Henry Borrow (1900)
"... a short spuddy fellow, with a broad ugly face and with spectacles on his nose,
who talked very consequentially about " the service" and all that, ..."
6. A Glossary of Dialect & Archaic Words Used in the County of Gloucester by John Drummond Robertson (1890)
"SPUD. íí. A common name for a potato. SPUD. st. A left-handed man. adj. spuddy.
[Selsley.] " A boy at school can bowl swift, and he's spuddy. ..."
7. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"... fat, scolding, and repulsive,— who fill to the extreme edge the wide chair on
which they sit, while they rest their spuddy hands on their knees, ..."
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