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spuds1
1. dirty behind the ears: His ears have spuds in them.
2. Used as singular as a nickname for the person with "spuds".
Contributor's comments: My grandma [from Central West NSW, then Sydney] used to call holes in socks spuds, but I was always under the impression that they were called so because the exposed roughly circular pattern of exposed skin resembled a two-dimensional picture of a potato. You know how pontiac potatoes are pinkish.