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Just wondering why we call potatoes "spuds"?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The best guess about the origin of the word "spud" traces it to a type of short-handled gardening spade known since about 1667 as a "spud", used for digging potatoes. As a slang term for a potato, "spud" first appeared in print around 1845 in EJ Wakefield's Adventure in New Zealand, apparently in a discussion of local slang: "Pigs and potatoes were respectively represented by 'grunters' and 'spuds�."