bud

See also: Bud, buď, and búð

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: bŭd, IPA(key): /bʌd/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌd

Etymology 1

From Middle English budde (“bud, seed pod”), from Proto-Germanic *buddǭ (compare Dutch bot (“bud”), German Hagebutte ‘hip, rosehip', Butzen (“seed pod”), Swedish dialect bodd (“head”)), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- (“to swell”).

Noun

A marijuana bud

bud (plural buds)

  1. A newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded.
    After a long, cold winter, the trees finally began to produce buds.
  2. 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.
  3. (usually uncountable, slang) Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the bud), or marijuana generally.
    Hey bro, want to smoke some bud?
  4. A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.
Synonyms
  • (marijuana): nug; see also Thesaurus:marijuana
  • (newly formed leaf or flower): budset.
Derived terms
Translations
small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism

Verb

bud (third-person singular simple present buds, present participle budding, simple past and past participle budded)

  1. To form buds.
    The trees are finally starting to bud.
  2. To reproduce by splitting off buds.
    Yeast reproduces by budding.
  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.
    a budding virgin
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
Translations

Etymology 2

From buddy.

Noun

bud (plural buds)

  1. (informal) Buddy, friend.
    I like to hang out with my buds on Saturday night.
  2. (informal) used to address a male
Synonyms
  • See also Thesaurus:friend
Translations

Anagrams

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈbut]
  • Rhymes: -ut

Noun

bud

  1. genitive plural of bouda

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse boð.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /buð/
  • Rhymes: -uð

Noun

bud n (singular definite buddet, plural indefinite bud)

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

Declension

Noun

bud n (singular definite buddet, plural indefinite bude)

  1. messenger, delivery man, errand boy

Declension

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse boð

Noun

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

Derived terms

See also

References

Scots

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbʌd/

Noun

bud (plural buds)

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

Verb

bud (third-person singular present buds, present participle budin, past budt, past participle budt)

  1. (archaic) Must, had to.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse boð.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bʉd/
  • audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʉːd

Noun

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
  4. a messenger (also budbärare, sändebud)
  5. someone who delivers packages or parcels (also budbil, cykelbud, paketbud)

Declension

Declension of bud 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative bud budet bud buden
Genitive buds budets buds budens

Volapük

Proper noun

bud

  1. Buddhism

Declension

Derived terms

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