bud

• enPR: bŭd, IPA^(key): /bʌd/

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• Rhymes: -ʌd

From Middle English budde (“bud, seed pod”), from Proto-Germanic *buddǭ (compare Dutch bot (“bud”), German Hagebutte ‘hip, rosehip', Butzen (“seed pod”), Swedish dialect bodd (“head”)), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- (“to swell”).

bud (countable and uncountable, plural buds)

A marijuana bud

1. A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.

   After a long, cold winter, the trees finally began to produce buds.

2. (figuratively) Something that has begun to develop.

   breast buds

3. A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.

   In this slide, you can see a yeast cell forming buds.

4. (usually uncountable, slang) Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the bud), or marijuana generally.

   Hey bro, want to smoke some bud?

5. A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.
6. (dated, term of endearment) A pretty young girl.
   • 1874, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, a Popular Journal of General Literature

     My pretty bud was unfolding and I was not there to see it. She was developing so rapidly, I felt I could not be from her a day without missing some sweetness that could never come again.

• (marijuana): nug; see also Thesaurus:marijuana
• (newly formed leaf or flower): budset.

• redbud
• taste bud
• bud of promise

bud (third-person singular simple present buds, present participle budding, simple past and past participle budded)

1. (intransitive) To form buds.

   The trees are finally starting to bud.

2. (intransitive) To reproduce by splitting off buds.

   Yeast reproduces by budding.

3. (intransitive) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
4. (intransitive) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.

   a budding virgin

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

5. (transitive) To put forth as a bud.
   • 2013, Julie Brown, The Brownstone (page 263)

     What appeared the same to us really wasn't. Every day was different, if we looked closely enough. Like the topiary tree that finally budded a rose after Terrence died: […]

6. (transitive) To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.

Back-formation from buddy.

bud (plural buds)

1. (informal) Buddy, friend.

   I like to hang out with my buds on Saturday night.

   • 27 November 2018, April Wolfe, AV Club Anna And The Apocalypse is a holiday-horror cocktail of singing, maiming, and clichés

     Anna’s best bud, John (Malcolm Cumming), harbors a secret crush on her, which is indicative of the lazier, more derivative portions of the story that simply repeat tropes rather than comment on them.

2. (informal) used to address a male

• See also Thesaurus:friend

• BDU, DBU, DUB, Dub, Dub., dub

• IPA^(key): [ˈbut]
• Rhymes: -ut

bud

1. genitive plural of bouda

• dub

From Old Norse boð.

• IPA^(key): /buð/
• Rhymes: -uð

bud n (singular definite buddet, plural indefinite bud)

1. command
2. message
3. offer
4. bid
5. guess

• budskab n
• de ti bud c pl

bud n (singular definite buddet, plural indefinite bude)

1. messenger, delivery man, errand boy

• budbringer c

• “bud” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Old Norse boð

bud n (definite singular budet, indefinite plural bud, definite plural buda or budene)

1. a bid or offer (to buy)
2. a command, order
3. a commandment (e.g. Ten Commandments)
4. a message
5. a messenger, courier

• budbringer
• budbærer
• postbud
• sendebud

• bod (Nynorsk)

• “bud” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• budd, bude

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʌd/

bud (plural buds)

1. (16th-century, archaic, poetic) A bribe or reward.

bud (third-person singular present buds, present participle budin, past budt, past participle budt)

1. (archaic) Must, had to.

From Old Norse boð.

• IPA^(key): /bʉd/

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• Rhymes: -ʉːd

bud n

1. a message (also budskap)
2. a commandment (as in the Ten Commandments; also budord), a rule that must be obeyed (also påbud)
3. a bid, an offer
4. a messenger (also budbärare, sändebud)
5. someone who delivers packages or parcels (also budbil, cykelbud, paketbud)

bud

1. Buddhism

• budan
• budik