bud
English
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Etymology 1
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”).
Noun
bud (countable and uncountable, plural buds)
- 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.
- (figuratively) Something that has begun to develop.
- breast buds
- 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.
- (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
- Hey bro, want to smoke some bud?
- A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.
- (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.
- 1874, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, a Popular Journal of General Literature
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Verb
bud (third-person singular simple present buds, present participle budding, simple past and past participle budded)
- (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.
- (intransitive) To reproduce by splitting off buds.
- Yeast reproduces by budding.
- (intransitive) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
- (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?
- (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
- 2013, Julie Brown, The Brownstone (page 263)
- (transitive) To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.
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Etymology 2
Back-formation from buddy.
Noun
bud (plural buds)
- (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.
- (informal, chiefly Canadian) used to address a male
- 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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Azerbaijani
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *būt.
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
bud (definite accusative budu, plural budlar)
- (now dated) thigh
- Synonym: omba
- gammon
- rump (a cut of meat from the rump of an animal)
- chicken drumstick
Declension
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singular | plural | |||||||
nominative | bud |
budlar | ||||||
definite accusative | budu |
budları | ||||||
dative | buda |
budlara | ||||||
locative | budda |
budlarda | ||||||
ablative | buddan |
budlardan | ||||||
definite genitive | budun |
budların |
Further reading
- “bud” in Obastan.com.
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
bud
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Danish
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
Noun
bud n (singular definite buddet, plural indefinite bud)
Inflection
Related terms
Noun
bud n (singular definite buddet, plural indefinite bude)
- messenger
- delivery man, errand boy (of any gender)
Inflection
Related terms
References
- “bud” in Den Danske Ordbog
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Danish boð, from Old Danish buth, from Old East Norse buð, from Proto-Germanic *budą.
Noun
bud n (definite singular budet, indefinite plural bud, definite plural buda or budene)
- a bid or offer (to buy)
- a command, order
- a commandment (e.g. Ten Commandments)
- a message
- a messenger, courier
Derived terms
See also
- bod (Nynorsk)
References
- “bud” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
bud f (definite singular budi, indefinite plural buder, definite plural buderne)
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Scots
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
bud (plural buds)
Verb
bud (third-person singular simple present buds, present participle budin, simple past budt, past participle budt)
- (archaic) Must, had to.
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish buþ, from Old East Norse buð, from Proto-Germanic *budą (“offer, message”), cognate with Danish bud, Dutch bod, German Gebot.
Pronunciation
Noun
bud n
- a message (also budskap)
- a commandment (as in the Ten Commandments; also budord), a rule that must be obeyed (also påbud)
- a bid, an offer (also anbud)
- a messenger (also budbärare, sändebud)
- someone who delivers packages or parcels (also budbil, cykelbud, paketbud)
Declension
Tausug
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulud.
Noun
būd
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Volapük
Proper noun
bud
Declension
singular | |
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nominative | bud |
genitive | buda |
dative | bude |
accusative | budi |
vocative 1 | o bud! |
predicative 2 | budu |
- 1 status as a case is disputed
- 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only
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