Noun: bud
Sample Sentences
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After a long, cold winter, the trees finally began to produce buds.
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Among Turks, pills consisting of hemp buds, muscat nuts, saffron, and honey were a popular aphrodisiac. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 113:]
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breast buds
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In this slide, you can see a yeast cell forming buds.
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You got any buds?
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Hey bro, want to smoke some bud?
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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:]
Nouns inflected like bud
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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)). See: Middle English Nouns '
budde', Old English Nouns '
*budde', Dutch Nouns '
bot', German Nouns '
Butz'.
Verbs referencing "bud"
Finnish Nouns
budi.