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Hole worn through a sock: You can't wear those socks there is a spud in the heel.
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.
Contributor's comments: [Riverina informant] hole in the heels of socks, therefore heels dirty enough to "grow potatoes in": His socks have spuds in them.