→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/To→“spud” is a “sharp, narrow spade” used to dig up large rooted plants. Around the mid-19th century (first documented reference in 1845 in New Zealand), this implement of destruction began lending its name to one of the things it was often used to dig up, namely potatoes. This caught on throughout the English speaking world and this slang term for a potato is still common to this day. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/06/why-are-potatoes-called-spuds/ Sources: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=acronym http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0124/p18s01-stgn.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato http://dchinn1.hubpages.com/hub/Why-Do-We-USe-Acronyms-and-Abbreviations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym_and_initialism http://spuds.askdefine.com/ http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spud http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=spud