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bud

Pronunciation: /bʌd/

The English word “bud” has 16 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.
  2. Something that has begun to develop.
  3. A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.
  4. Cannabis that has been taken from the flowering part of the plant intended to be smoked.
  5. Marijuana.
  6. A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.
  7. A pretty young girl.
  8. Buddy, friend.
  9. Synonym of guy, term of address for a man or person.
  10. Brother.

verb

  1. To form buds.
  2. To reproduce by splitting off buds.
  3. To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
  4. To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.
  5. To put forth as a bud.
  6. To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.

Etymology

From Middle English budde, bodde (“bud, seed pod”), from Old English *budde, from Proto-West Germanic *buʀdā, from Proto-Germanic *buzdǭ (compare archaic German Butte (“rosehip”), Swedish dialect bodd (“head”)), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- (“to swell”). Compare also German Low German Butte, Butt (“bud”), Dutch bot (“bud”), regional German Butz, Butzen (“seed pod; apple core”),…

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