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Bud

//bʌd// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A male nickname.

    "I remember many visits from my uncle Bud."

  2. 2
    A Budweiser beer. informal

    "I'd like a Bud, please."

  3. 3
    AB InBev

    "Shares of AB InBev (BUD) soared nearly 6% after the Budweiser, Bud Light and Stella Artois owner reported solid sales and earnings."

  4. 4
    A male given name from English. Southern-US, rare
Noun
  1. 1
    A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded. countable, uncountable

    "After a long, cold winter, the trees finally began to produce buds."

  2. 2
    Buddy, friend. Canada, US, informal

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

  3. 3
    Initialism of benzodiazepine use disorder. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  4. 4
    a partially opened flower wordnet
  5. 5
    Something that has begun to develop. countable, figuratively, uncountable

    "breast buds"

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  1. 6
    Synonym of guy, term of address for a man or person. Canada, informal

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

  2. 7
    Initialism of big ugly dish. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, informal, initialism, uncountable

    "I spend substantially less time fiddling with the 4dtv than I did with my HTS Premier 70, to say the least. As far as quality goes, it puts the SLD to shame. With the BUD my 53" picture is outstanding. With DTV/USSB it looked like crap."

  3. 8
    a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals wordnet
  4. 9
    A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism. countable, uncountable

    "In this slide, you can see a yeast cell forming buds."

  5. 10
    Brother. informal, rare

    "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."

  6. 11
    Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the "bud"), or marijuana generally.; Cannabis that has been taken from the flowering part of the plant intended to be smoked. Australia, Canada, US, countable, plural-normally, slang, uncountable, usually

    "You got any buds?"

  7. 12
    Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the "bud"), or marijuana generally.; Marijuana. Australia, Canada, US, slang, uncountable, usually

    "Hey bro, want to smoke some bud?"

  8. 13
    A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud. countable, uncountable
  9. 14
    A pretty young girl. countable, dated, uncountable

    "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."

Verb
  1. 1
    To form buds. intransitive

    "The trees are finally starting to bud."

  2. 2
    start to grow or develop wordnet
  3. 3
    To reproduce by splitting off buds. intransitive

    "Yeast reproduces by budding."

  4. 4
    develop buds wordnet
  5. 5
    To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn. intransitive

    "Seeds of dissent were budding among the recruits."

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  1. 6
    To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise. intransitive

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

  2. 7
    To put forth as a bud. transitive

    "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: […]"

  3. 8
    To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree. transitive

Etymology

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”).

Etymology 2

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”).

Etymology 3

Back-formation from buddy.

Etymology 4

From bud.

Etymology 5

From Budweiser.

Etymology 6

Abbreviation of Budweiser.

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