bud
noun
- Unmatured and embryonic shoot
verb
- start up, begin anew
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /bʌd/
name
Etymology: From Budweiser.
- A Budweiser beer.
“I'd like a Bud, please.”
noun
Etymology: Back-formation from buddy.
- Buddy, friend.
“I like to hang out with my buds on Saturday night.”
“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.”
- Synonym of guy, term of address for a man or person.
“[T]hen he shrugged his shoulders and said, with admirable philosophy: "Well, that's life, ain't it, bud?"”
- Brother.
“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.”
verb
Etymology: 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)).
- To form buds.
“The trees are finally starting to bud.”
“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.”
- To reproduce by splitting off buds.
“Yeast reproduces by budding.”
- 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.”
- To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.
“Young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet, / Whither away, or where is thy abode?”
- To put forth as a bud.
“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: […]”
“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”
- To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.