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bud

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Ntcham.

A magnolia flower bud

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”), German Low German Haagbutt ("rosehip"; Haagbudden (“rosehips”, plural)).

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.
    • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 113:
      Among Turks, pills consisting of hemp buds, muscat nuts, saffron, and honey were a popular aphrodisiac.
  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, Australia, 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.

newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded

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

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.
    Seeds of dissent were budding among the recruits.
  4. (intransitive) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.
  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[1]:
      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.

to form buds

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[2], 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 Canada) 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?"
  3. (informal, rare) Brother.
    • 1992, Lea DeLaria, “P-Town”, in Bulldyke in a China Shop (spoken-word comedy album):
      So I'm walking along, minding my own business, right, and suddenly I found myself trapped in a nuclear family. Oh, they were all around me, mom, dad, bud, sis.

slang: buddy

Antigua and Barbuda Creole English

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bud

  1. penis

From Proto-Turkic *būt.

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

From clipping of English budget.

bud

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) budget

bud

  1. genitive plural of bouda

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.

bud n (singular definite buddet, plural indefinite **bud)

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

bud n (singular definite buddet, plural indefinite bude)

  1. messenger
  2. delivery man, courier

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

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

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

_Landsmål declension of bud (strong ō_-stem)

feminine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative bud budi buder buderna
dative ― budenne ― budom
compound-genitive budar- ― ― ―

_Sunnmøre declension of bud (strong ō_-stem)

feminine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative bud buda bude budinnje
dative ― budinnje ― budå
compound-genitive buda- ― ― ―

bud f

  1. genitive plural of buda

bud (plural buds)

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

bud (third-person singular simple present buds, present participle budin, simple past and 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.

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)

bud

  1. Buddhism