English Explanatory Dictionary

bud

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.
  2. Something that has begun to develop.
  3. A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.
  4. Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the "bud"), or marijuana generally.
  5. Cannabis that has been taken from the flowering part of the plant intended to be smoked.
  6. Marijuana.
  7. A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.
  8. A pretty young girl.
verb
  1. To form buds.
  2. To reproduce by splitting off buds.
  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.
  5. To put forth as a bud.
  6. To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.
noun
  1. Buddy, friend.
  2. Synonym of guy, term of address for a man or person.
  3. Brother.
name
  1. A male nickname.
  2. A male given name from English.
name
  1. A Budweiser beer.
noun
  1. Initialism of benzodiazepine use disorder.
  2. Initialism of big ugly dish.
name
  1. AB InBev

Pronunciation

bŭd /bʌd/ En-us-bud.ogg

Word forms

bud buds budding budded

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)).

Synonyms

budset nug marijuana bhang benj boo broccoli bud buddha cannabis cheeba choof daccha dank devil's lettuce djamba doja doobage dope endo gage ganja ganj grass green greenery hash hashish hemp herb Mary Jane MJ marihoochie Mary Joanna method mezz muggle mull pot puff reefer sens sensimillia sensimilla shit sweetleaf tea Texas tea trees twig wacky tobaccy weed yarndie zaza zombie babber billy bredrin bruv buddo

Related words

bud-bud-ding-ding

Derived words

abud bud borer budburst buddy bud grafting budless budlet budlike budling bud moth budmoth bud of promise budtender budwood budworm cotton bud cotton wool bud cuckoobud debud disbud ear bud ear-bud endbud farcy bud heifer-bud interbud killer green bud kind bud kine bud leaf bud leafbud lovebud Mary-bud microbud nanobud nip in the bud odds bud ods bud pancreatic bud redbud rosebud rumbud rum bud seed-bud strawberry bud weevil tailbud taste bud tastebud budder bud off bud out bud up outbud rebud brud buddo
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