English
bud
see also: Bud, BUD
Pronunciation Etymology 1

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

Noun

bud

  1. A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.
    Synonyms: 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, 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.
Translations Translations Translations Verb

bud (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: […]
  6. (transitive) To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.
Translations Translations Noun

bud (plural buds)

  1. (informal, North America) Buddy, friend.
    Synonyms: Thesaurus:friend
    I like to hang out with my buds on Saturday night.
  2. (informal, chiefly, Canadian) Synonym of guy, term of address for a man or person.
Translations
Bud
Pronunciation Etymology 1

From bud.

Proper noun
  1. A male nickname.
    I remember many visits from my uncle Bud.
  2. (rare, chiefly, Southern US) A male given name.
Etymology 2

From Budweiser.

Proper noun

bud (plural buds)

  1. (informal) A Budweiser beer.
    I'd like a Bud, please.
BUD
Noun

bud

  1. (disease) Initialism of benzodiazepine use disorder
  2. (informal, telecommunications) Initialism of big ugly dish


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