bud

• enPR: bŭd, IPA^(key): /bʌd/

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• Rhymes: -ʌd

A magnolia flower bud

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

bud (countable and uncountable, plural buds)

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

   Synonym: budset

   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.

   Synonyms: nug, marijuana; see also Thesaurus:marijuana

   1. (US, Canada, Australia, slang, usually in the plural) Cannabis that has been taken from the flowering part of the plant intended to be smoked.

      You got any buds?

   2. (US, Canada, slang, uncountable) Marijuana.

      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.

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.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 17:8:

     And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.

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.
   • c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     Young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet, / Whither away, or where is thy abode?

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: […]

   • 2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian‎:

     Once, he was put on a course of potent hormone pills, coming off them when he woke up one morning to discover he was budding breasts

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

Back-formation from buddy.

bud (plural buds)

1. (informal, Canada, US) Buddy, friend.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:friend

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

   • 2018 November 27, April Wolfe, “Anna And The Apocalypse is a Holiday-horror Cocktail of Singing, Maiming, and Clichés”, in The A.V. Club‎, archived from the original on 4 November 2019:

     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, chiefly Canadian) Synonym of guy, term of address for a man or person.
   • 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 87:

     [T]hen he shrugged his shoulders and said, with admirable philosophy: "Well, that's life, ain't it, bud?"

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• BDU, DBU, DUB, Dub, Dub., dub

From Proto-Turkic *būt.

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bud (definite accusative budu, plural budlar)

1. (now dated) thigh

   Synonym: omba

2. gammon
3. rump (a cut of meat from the rump of an animal)
4. chicken drumstick

• “bud” in Obastan.com.

• 筆／笔 (bat¹)

From clipping of English budget.

bud

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) budget

• budget

• IPA^(key): [ˈbut]
• Rhymes: -ut

bud

1. genitive plural of bouda

• dub

From Old Danish buth n, from Old East Norse buð n, from Proto-Germanic *budą (“offer, message”), cognate with Swedish bud, Dutch bod, German Gebot.

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥uð]
• 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
2. delivery man, courier

• budbringer c

• “bud” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Danish boð, from Old Danish buth, from Old East Norse buð, from Proto-Germanic *budą.

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.

bud f (definite singular budi, indefinite plural buder, definite plural buderne)

1. (pre-1917 or dialectal, Sunnmøre) alternative form of bu

• IPA^(key): /but/
• Rhymes: -ut
• Syllabification: bud
• Homophone: but

bud f

1. genitive plural of buda

• budd, bude

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʌd/

bud (plural buds)

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

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

1. (archaic) Must, had to.

From Old Swedish buþ, from Old East Norse buð, from Proto-Germanic *budą (“offer, message”), cognate with Danish bud, Dutch bod, German Gebot.

• IPA^(key): /bʉːd/

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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 (also anbud)
4. a messenger (also budbärare, sändebud)
5. someone who delivers packages or parcels (also budbil, cykelbud, paketbud)

• hårda bud
• till buds

• bud in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• bud in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• bud in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulud.

būd

1. mountain

• mabud

bud

1. Buddhism

• budan
• budik