✅ Potato refers to an edible tuber. The word can also refer to a sweet potato (The humble potato is a versatile ingredient).

✅ Spud is an informal term for potato, but the word can also refer to a variety of different tools (The spuds were overcooked).

✅ Potato and spud are often interchangeable, with potato being the common term and spud being a more informal one.

✅ However, a spud is also a surgical instrument that can be used to remove wax from ears!

✅ A clown is a fool or a person who is rude and vulgar (Stop being such a clown!).

✅ A turkey is a person who is naive or inept (The promising new recruit turned out to be a turkey).

✅ Both clown and turkey describe foolish people who have bad judgment.

✅ Both words are also somewhat unkind ways to refer to someone, but they’re softer and less offensive words that you might use instead of a word like idiot.

✅ A quarrel is an angry disagreement (We had a quarrel, and I feel awful).

✅ A brannigan is a noisy quarrel or squabble (The fight was turning into a brannigan).

✅ Quarrel and brannigan, both refer to an argument or disagreement, and both words suggest anger or aggression.

✅ Brannigan also suggests an element of drunkenness, which may play into the noise level or anger of the quarrel.