potato vs spud

potato

noun
  • A conspicuous hole in a sock or stocking. 

  • Metaphor for a person or thing of little value. 

  • A camera that takes poor-quality pictures. 

  • A mentally handicapped person. 

  • The tuber of a plant, Solanum tuberosum, eaten as a starchy vegetable, particularly in the Americas and Europe; this plant. 

  • An underpowered computer or other device, especially when small in size. 

adj
  • Underpowered; low-end. 

spud

noun
  • A hole in a sock. 

  • A barking spud; a long-handled tool for removing bark from logs. 

  • A testicle. 

  • A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends. 

  • A short central rod in a lighting fixture, for attachment to the light. 

  • A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc. 

  • A digging fork with three broad prongs. 

  • A potato. 

name
  • A game for three or more players, involving the gradual elimination of players by throwing and catching a ball. 

verb
  • To begin drilling an oil well; to drill by moving the drill bit and shaft up and down, or by raising and dropping a bit. 

  • To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping. 

  • To set up a recreational vehicle (RV) at a campsite, typically by leveling the RV and connecting it to electric, water, and/or sewer hookups. 

  • To dig up weeds with a spud. 

How often have the words potato and spud occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )