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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.

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fists. If we wanted to decided who was going to pick teams or turn the rope or be the one to chase everyone else, we had to choose that person. We'd stand in a circle with both fists in front, and then use a counting rhyme to decide who was 'it': Spuds in!

Contributor's comments: Action, played to a rhyme, hitting the fists (spuds) of all the kids in a circle, until last one "in", to determine who is "He" for games of chasey, brandy, hip etc. in the schoolground: "Lets play brandy." (i.e. game played by throwing tennis balls at kids in playground). "OK, Spuds first!"