budn.1
/bʌd/ 1.
a. Botany. A little projection found at the axil of a leaf, composed of scales, which are small leaves, and forming the rudiment of a branch, cluster of leaves, or blossom. Hence, applied to a flower (or leaf) at any stage of growth until fully opened.
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the world > plants > part of plant > bud > [noun]
burgeoninga1340
bud1398
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burgeona1400
tendron14..
buttona1425
pumple1523
oillet1574
dodkin1578
pimple1582
eyelet1600
knot1601
eye1618
budleta1864
button bud1869
break1933
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xvii. lxxv Sumtyme burgynge of boddes beþ gnawe and frete with flyes.
c1400 Purif. Marie in Tundale's Vis. in W. B. D. D. Turnbull Visions of Tundale (1843) 135 The comyng Of greene veer with fresch buddes new.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. OOOiiii So long it is called the budde of a rose, as it is nat a perfite rose.
1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. Oij The best flowres ben of the rede apples..whan the botthes begynne the blossome and to go open.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. iv. 111 A worme i'th budde . View more context for this quotation
a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1683) i. 65 To pluck away the bearing Buds, before they proceed unto Flowers or Fruit.
1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 207. ⁋8 The swelling bud and opening blossom.
1832 Ld. Tennyson Lotos-eaters: Choric Song iii, in Poems (new ed.) 112 The folded leaf is wooed from out the bud.
1879 A. Gray in A. Gray & G. L. Goodale Bot. Text-bk. (ed. 6) I. i. 7 An incipient stem or branch, with its rudimentary leaves, is a Bud.
b. Zoology. A similar growth in animals of low organization, which develops into a new individual.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > bodies or parts > [noun] > bud generating individual
gem1832
bud1836
gemmule1844
gemma1851
1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 433/1 The new individual grows upon the parent as a bud or sprout.
1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. i. 46 The creature gives off from certain parts of its body buds or gemmæ, which at a fixed period become detached, and give rise to new animals.
2. transferred. Used of things resembling buds: as the rudiment of a horn when it begins to sprout; a nipple; a pimple in farcy, a disease of horses.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > glanders, strangles, or farcy > farcy bud
farcin1453
bud1593
farcy1684
farcy bud1842
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > breast or breasts (of woman) > [noun] > nipple
papc1175
teat?a1200
pap-head?a1425
big?a1439
wartc1440
teat headc1500
nipplec1510
spin1525
dug1530
spean1573
bud1593
milk papa1616
niplet1648
dud1679
mamilla1684
duddlea1708
diddy1788
tittya1825
knob1941
nip1970
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > male > [noun] > body and parts > antler > knob forming beginning or tip of
broach1575
button1575
croche1575
tenderlings1575
bud1593
peg1611
scrotcher1611
seal1611
velvet tip1638
crocket1870
offer1884
nubbin1978
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 71 Theyr breasts they embuske vp on hie, and theyr round Roseate buds immodestly lay foorth.
1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. xviii. 304 This powder healeth the buds or knots of the Farcin.
1651 J. French Art Distillation iv. 103 The young buds of Harts-horne.
1702 London Gaz. No. 3814/4 A..Grey Gelding..scar'd with the Farcy Buds.
3. figurative.
a. Anything in an immature or undeveloped state.
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] > the first part or beginning > the earliest stage(s) > something in earliest stage
bud1579
embryon1581
infantc1595
embryo1608
rudiment1625
fetus1632
1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 238/2 Such a desire is a budde of ambition.
1592 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) viii. xxxix. 173 Our decent Church-Rites..Did then put forth her Braunches, and weare fruitfull in the bood.
1633 G. Herbert Sunday in Temple i The fruit of this, the next worlds bud.
1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 79 The wintry Blast of Death Kills not the Buds of Virtue.
b. Said of children or young persons, or as a term of endearment.
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the world > people > person > child > [noun]
wenchelc890
childeOE
littleOE
littlingOE
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innocentc1325
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younkerkin1528
kitling1541
urchin1556
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breed1586
budling1587
pledge?1587
ragazzo1591
simplicity1592
bantling1593
tadpole1594
two-year-old1594
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lambkin1600
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dandling1611
buda1616
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dovelinga1618
whelplinga1618
puppet1623
butter printa1625
chit1625
piggy1625
ninnyc1626
youngster1633
fairya1635
lap-child1655
chitterling1675
squeaker1676
cherub1680
kid1690
wean1692
kinchin1699
getlingc1700
totum17..
charity-child1723
small girl1734
poult1739
elfin1748
piggy-wiggy1766
piccaninny1774
suck-thumb18..
teeny1802
olive1803
sprout1813
stumpie1820
sexennarian1821
totty1822
toddle1825
toddles1828
poppet1830
brancher1833
toad1836
toddler1837
ankle-biter1840
yarkera1842
twopenny1844
weeny1844
tottykins1849
toddlekins1852
brattock1858
nipper1859
sprat1860
ninepins1862
angelet1868
tenas man1870
tad1877
tacker1885
chavvy1886
joey1887
toddleskin1890
thumb-sucker1891
littlie1893
peewee1894
tyke1894
che-ild1896
kiddo1896
mother's bairn1896
childling1903
kipper1905
pick1905
small1907
God forbid1909
preadolescent1909
subadolescent1914
toto1914
snookums1919
tweenie1919
problem child1920
squirt1924
trottie1924
tiddler1927
subteen1929
perisher1935
poopsie1937
pre-schooler1937
pre-teen1938
pre-teener1940
juvie1941
sprog1944
pikkie1945
subteenager1947
pre-teenager1948
pint-size1954
saucepan lid1960
rug rat1964
smallie1984
bosom-child-
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. iv. 82 Now will Canker-sorrow eat my bud [Arthur], And chase the natiue beauty from his cheeke. View more context for this quotation
1675 W. Wycherley Country-wife ii. 17 You are mine own Dear Bud.
1675 W. Wycherley Country-wife iii. 41 'Tis no matter—no matter, Bud.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess vi. 130 Her eye..dwelt Full on the child; she took it: ‘Pretty bud!..half open'd bell of the woods!’
1880 R. Grant Confessions Frivolous Girl 39 This is your first party... Yes, I am what is called a bud.
c. ‘A weaned calf of the first year’ (Ray S. and E.C. Words (1674) 60). dialect in later use.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > calf > [noun] > weaned
wean-calf1618
bud1662
weaner1865
1662 in Collections towards Hist. & Antiq. Elmeswell & Campsey Ash in Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica No. 52 (1790) 30 For every gast beast and heifer, gast ware and bud [calf], three half-pence apiece.
1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. Bud, a calf of the first year, so called because the horns then begin to appear or bud.
1888 N.E.D. at Bud Mod. dial. Kent, There are three halfers [heifers] and two nice young buds in the yard.
d. A girl who is just ‘coming out’; a débutante. Also more fully bud of promise. Chiefly U.S. colloquial.
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the world > people > person > young person > young woman > [noun]
daughterOE
maidenOE
young womanOE
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burdc1225
maidc1275
wenchc1290
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young ladya1393
jilla1425
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young person1438
domicellea1464
quean1488
trull1525
pulleta1533
Tib1533
kittyc1560
dell1567
gillian1573
nymph1584
winklota1586
frotion1587
yuffrouw1589
pigeon1592
tit1599
nannicock1600
muggle1608
gixy1611
infanta1611
dilla1627
tittiea1628
whimsy1631
ladykin1632
stammel1639
moggie1648
zitellaa1660
baggagea1668
miss1668
baby1684
burdie1718
demoiselle1720
queanie?1800
intombi1809
muchacha1811
jilt1816
titter1819
ragazza1827
gouge1828
craft1829
meisie1838
sheila1839
sixteenc1840
chica1843
femme1846
muffin1854
gel1857
quail1859
kitten1870
bud1880
fräulein1883
sub-debutante1887
sweet-and-twenty1887
flapper1888
jelly1889
queen1894
chick1899
pusher1902
bit of fluff1903
chicklet1905
twist and twirl1905
twist1906
head1913
sub-deb1916
tabby1916
mouse1917
tittie1918
chickie1919
wren1920
bim1922
nifty1923
quiff1923
wimp1923
bride1924
job1927
junior miss1927
hag1932
tab1932
sort1933
palone1934
brush1941
knitting1943
teenybopper1966
weeny-bopper1972
Valley Girl1982
1880 R. Grant Confessions Frivolous Girl i. 39 ‘This is your first party, I believe, Miss Palmer?’..‘Yes, I am what is called a “bud”.’
1888 Charlestown Enterprise (Farmer) The young, unmarried girl, in sport, Is called a bud of promise.
1889 Harper's Mag. Sept. 571/1 As dashing a belle as there was in the rooms—not a bud—a belle of some six or seven years standing.
1894 Outing (N.Y.) Apr. 43/1 [Picture of] A Chinese bud.
1903 N.Y. Tribune 4 Oct. Among the latter [sc. the débutantes] will be Miss Enid Shaw, the only bud of the Cabinet circle.
1919 Sphere 1 Nov. 120/2 One of those dream-like young girls that only seem to happen in London during the height of the summer and winter seasons... This gilded ‘bud’ drove away in a cloak of warm pink panne.
4. in bud (said of plants; cf. in leaf, in flower): budding. in the bud: not yet developed; often figurative = young, immature, ‘in the germ’. to nip or crush in the bud: figurative to repress or destroy (a project, etc.) in its first beginnings (see also nip v.1 5b).
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > at the beginning [phrase] > in early stage
embryon1581
in (the) embryon1607
in embryo1631
in the bud1677
in the gristle1775
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > crush, stifle, or overwhelm (feelings, etc.)
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allayOE
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to put downa1425
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quealc1530
to trample under foot1530
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quail1533
suppress1537
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revocate1547
whelm1553
queasom1561
knetcha1564
squench1577
restinguish1579
to keep down1581
trample1583
repel1592
accable1602
crush1610
to wrestle down?1611
chokea1616
stranglea1616
stifle1621
smother1632
overpower1646
resuppress1654
strangulate1665
instranglea1670
to choke back, down, in, out1690
to nip or crush in the bud1746
spiflicate1749
squasha1777
to get under1799
burke1835
to stamp out1851
to trample down1853
quelch1864
to sit upon ——1864
squelch1864
smash1865
garrotte1878
scotch1888
douse1916
to drive under1920
stomp1936
stultify1958
the world > life > source or principle of life > age > youth > [adjective] > belonging to early part of life
younger1538
springing1556
youngest1570
junior1606
vernant1793
vernal1794
in bud1847
1677 A. Horneck Great Law Consideration (1704) 89 If a tree does not thrive, if flowers do wither in the bud.
1746 Rep. Cond. Sir J. Cope 12 The crushing in the bud an Insurrection.
1844 tr. M. T. Asmar Mem. Babylonian Princess II. 168 The plot was apparently nipped in the bud.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess i. 13 While life was yet in bud and blade.
1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. iv. 258 Promising germs of freedom were..crushed in the bud.
1879 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 3) vii. 418 A flectional word is a phrase in the bud.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
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bud-blighted adj.
bud-crowned adj.
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1867 R. W. Emerson May-day & Other Pieces 21 The bud-crowned Spring.
bud-like adj.
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the world > plants > part of plant > bud > [adjective]
bud-like1839
break1933
1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 41 To watch young beauty's budlike feelings burst And load the soul with love.
1847–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. i. 427/1 A simple canal with bud-like processes.
b.
bud-coat n.
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1866 C. Rossetti Prince's Progress 3 Poppies..Wrapped in bud-coats hairy and neat.
bud-generation n.
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1880 C. Darwin & F. Darwin Power of Movement in Plants 190 A bud may revert to the character of a former state many bud-generations ago.
bud-scale n.
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1880 A. Gray Bot. Text-bk. (ed. 6) 400 Bud-scales. The dry teguments which serve to protect the..growing point within during the season of rest.
bud-time n.
bud-variation n.
C2. † bud-cutter n. Obsolete obsolete name of an insect (transl. French lisette ‘coupe-bourgeon’, Boiste).
bud-bird n. dialect the Bullfinch.
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1865 Poetry of Provincialisms in Cornhill Mag. July 35 The provincial ‘bud-bird’ of Herefordshire, the bullfinch.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [noun] > member of > unspecified
breezea1300
drumblec1350
gagrill14..
bug1594
bud-cutter1693
butter-cutter1704
cane-fly1750
whistle-insect1760
bush-worm1796
gogga1909
nunu1913
minibeast1973
1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner ii. v. x. 100 To have the end of their new Shoots..cut off by a little black round Insect, call'd Bud-Cutter.
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bud-germ n. Zoology = 1b.
bud-glue n. (see quot.).
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the world > plants > part of plant > bud > [noun] > sticky substance found on
bud-glue1884
1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 99 Hanstein has termed these organs which cover the buds with a sticky secretion ‘Beleimer’, or Colleters, and their sticky product bud-glue, or Blasto-colla.
bud-graft v. (transitive) = bud v.1 5; also as n., a shrub or tree grown by this process; so bud-grafted adj.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > cultivated or valued > [noun] > produced by or used for grafting
clavec1420
grafter1600
graftlinga1618
family tree1918
bud-graft1930
the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [adjective] > grafted
inoculated1604
ungraft1605
engraffed1607
engrafted1609
ungrafted1657
grafted1697
stock-grafted1707
inarched1736
workeda1763
root-grafted1835
bud-grafted1930
the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > grafting > plant produced by grafting
free stock1658
graft-hybrid1868
bud-graft1930
the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > propagate [verb (transitive)] > a cutting: graft > graft by budding
ineyec1420
inoculate?1440
inoculer?1440
implant1660
bud1663
bud-graft1930
1930 Times 26 Mar. 25/6 The yields from bud-grafted trees will exceed those from selected seedlings. Of the 4,343 acres planted, 2,200 acres are either bud-grafted or alternate rows of bud-grafts and selected seedlings.
1936 Economist 18 Apr. 152/1 Those young areas..had been budgrafted.
bud-rot n. rotting of the buds of a plant or tree; a disease characterized by this.
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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > fungal > associated with crop or food plants > various diseases
red rot1798
bunt1800
heart rot1808
yellow rust1808
pepperbrand1842
black spot1847
take-all1865
anthracnose1877
coffee-leaf disease1877
white rot1879
bladder-brand1883
basal rot1896
whitehead1898
black root rot1901
chancre1903
black pod1904
bud-rot1906
frog-eye1906
wildfire1918
pasmo1926
blind-seed disease1939
sharp eyespot1943
1906 E. J. Butler in Agric. Jrnl. India 1 310 A cocoanut palm disease known as ‘bud rot’.
1946 Nature 14 Dec. 882/1 Bud-rot in the eastern tropics, hitherto fortunately never confused with eelworm attack, is due to Phytophthora.
bud-rudiment n. the cell in the embryo, from which the bud is developed.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > embryo or fetus > embryo parts > [noun] > embryo cells
bud-rudiment1882
pole cell1890
1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 297 A cell, which Pringsheim calls the ‘bud-rudiment’.
bud-sport n. [sport n.1 6a.] an abnormal variation produced from a bud.
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the world > plants > part of plant > bud > [noun] > abnormal variation produced from
bud-sport1900
the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > [noun] > changes or actions of genes or chromosomes > mutation > mutant
sport of nature1601
lusus naturaea1661
sportling1723
sport1834
bud-sport1900
mutant1901
break1921
mutation1941
1900 B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms 38/1 Bud sport.
1905 H. de Vries Species & Varieties xiv. 427 Bud-sports of variegated hollyhock, elms, chestnuts, beeches and others.
1956 C. Auerbach Genetics in Atomic Age vi. 41 If it [sc. a mutated gene] is of a kind to produce a visible effect, a so-called ‘bud-sport’ will result, for example, a branch with white berries on a red-currant bush.
bud-worm n. a larva that feeds upon the buds of corn, tobacco, fir-trees, etc.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [noun] > young or development of young > larva > defined by parasitism or feeding > that destroys or eats plants
canker1440
rukel?1440
cankerworm1530
canker-blossom1600
whirl-worm1643
whirl1658
bud-worm1850
stem borer1921
1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Agric. 459 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 2) VI With the bud-worm you must be more particular.
1922 W. Schlich Man. Forestry (ed. 4) I. ii. 188 Financial assistance..for the balsam bud-worm investigation.
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slang (originally U.S.). Marijuana.
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1982 M. Pond Valley Girl's Guide to Life 53 Bud sesh, smoking pot.
1993 R. Lowe & W. Shaw Travellers 25 I spent the first few months attempting to smoke as much good bud as I possibly could.
2007 J. L. Scalzo Evid. of my Existence 139 I found him outside by the pool in a white robe, smoking some bud.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
† budn.2
Scottish. Obsolete.
A bribe. Also in combination bud-taker.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [noun] > bribe
gift1382
handy-dandyc1390
pricec1400
bud1436
bribe?a1439
golden (also silver) keyc1450
fee1549
golden shower1589
oil of angels1592
sugar-plum1608
bribera1616
palm oil1625
greasinga1661
sop1665
sweetbreada1670
vail1687
douceur1739
sweetener1741
bonus1759
buckshee1773
smear-gelt1785
grease1823
boodle?1856
soap1860
ice1887
palm-grease1897
poultice1902
fix1929
dropsy1930
pay-off1930
drop1931
oil1935
squeeze-pidgin1946
sling1948
bung1958
back-hander1960
1436 Acts Jas. I clv. (Jam.) All jugeis sall gar the assysouris sweir..that thay nouther haue tane, nor sall tak meid na buddis of ony partie.
1535 D. Lindsay Satyre 1616 I am ane Iudge..Na bud nor fauour may my sicht oversyle.
1579 Act Jas. VI (1597) §93 The saidis Bud-takeris, to be displaced and deprived simpliciter of their offices.
a1651 D. Calderwood Hist. Kirk Scotl. (Wodrow) III. 394 They acquired wealth by taking budds from such as had sutes to him.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
budn.3
/bʌd/, U.S. /bəd/ colloquial (originally U.S.).
1. U.S. (chiefly southern and Midland). A brother; a male sibling. Frequently as a nickname. Now rare.
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1851 J. B. Lamar in J. B. Lamar et al. Polly Peablossom's Wedding & Other Tales 19 ‘An't you joking, bud?’ asked Polly of her boy brother.
1889 Harper's Mag. Aug. 459/1 He said that his name was ‘Bud’ Lightwood... ‘It's brother,’ he said..‘“bud” and “sis”, you know.’
1945 Amer. Speech 20 84 ‘My bud's in the Marines on Guadal,’ a girl will say.
2.
a. North American. Used as a familiar form of address to a man or boy.In later use sometimes with overtones of sarcasm or aggression; cf. pal n.3
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1875 ‘Uncle Bob’ Lett. to Children (ed. 3) xxxv. 196 Now, Bud, do n't you scribble any of your nonsense to Uncle Bob.
1894 Brother in Red 13 Dec. 2/1 Well listen, Bud: You won't make it, the conductor will pitch you off before she stops.
1905 Washington Post 6 Aug. s12/1 Cut that pal... guess you were after the singstress' stuff, hey, Bud?
1953 W. R. Burnett Vanity Row i. 9 Gamblers..would often hand him a quarter..and say: ‘Keep it, bud.’
1992 A. Nelson In Land of Men (1999) 19 He comes out to get the paper, nobody around, and bang, Sam's there with the gun..like, get in the car, bud, let's go for a cruise. We didn't even have to tie him up.
2002 Orange Coast Nov. 178/1 Later that night I sent him an e-mail: ‘Hey, bud. What's up?’
b. A friend, a pal. Often in best bud. to be buds with: to be friendly with (another person); to have as a friend.
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the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > friend
friendOE
wineOE
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friendmana1250
lovera1275
amic1330
gossipc1390
mikea1400
ally1406
amykec1450
favourer1483
favourite1590
palc1770
butty1791
amigo1813
amico1820
compadre1834
pally1863
tillicum1869
nigger1884
buddy1895
paxc1900
mutual1901
righto1908
segotia1917
bud1924
palsy1930
palsy-walsy1932
buddy-buddy1943
winger1943
mucker1947
main man1956
goombah1968
gabba1970
money1982
1924 ‘Digit’ Confessions of 20th Cent. Hobo 11 Bud , Buddy , friend, chum, or mate.
1962 T. F. Jones Stairway to Sea in 3 X 3 50 Hamlet is big buds with this other cat, Horatio.
1988 Toronto Star (Nexis) 24 July (Entertainment section) g3 Picture this. You're at your favorite bar, surrounded by all your best buds, watching the greatest bar band on Earth.
1991 J. Batten Blood Count vi. 40 ‘Was Ian Argyll a particular bud of yours?’ ‘He was a friend of everybody's.’
2014 B. Conaghan When Mr Dog Bites (2015) i. 3 Amir is my best bud.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
budv.1
/bʌd/, U.S. /bəd/ 1. intransitive.
a. To put forth buds, to sprout.
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the world > plants > part of plant > bud > [verb (intransitive)]
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1398 [implied in: J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) ix. vii. 352 Harueste..wythdrawyth the vertue of buddynge and of spryngynge. (at budding n.1 1)].
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 54 Buddun as trees, gemmo.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job xiv. 8 The stocke..will budde.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §417 The remouing of the Tree, some Moneth before it Buddeth.
1813 W. Scott Rokeby iii. xxviii. 144 The rose is budding fain.
b. With out: to come or push out, as a bud.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > be or become protuberant [verb (intransitive)]
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1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician vi. 206 If..a Carbuncle bud out in the Arms or Legs.
1867 H. Spencer First Princ. (ed. 2) ii. xv. §119. 336 The wings and legs of a bird..when they bud-out from the sides of the embryo.
2. figurative. To spring forth, as a bud; to begin to grow; to develop; also with out, up.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [verb (intransitive)] > grow
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1566 J. Knox Hist. Reformation in Wks. (1846) I. 184 Thairby Goddis woord should somewhat bud.
a1593 H. Smith Serm. (1866) II. 254 Many vices bud out of this one.
1608 P. Golding tr. J. Sleidane Epit. Frossard ii. 68 There was trouble and insurrection budding vp.
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII i. i. 94 The sodaine breach..is budded out, For France hath flaw'd the League.
1713 E. Young Poem on Last Day iii. 73 There, Bud the Promises of Heavenly Worth!
1862 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire VII. lxvi. 436 The camps which Agricola had planted..budded, in the course of ages, into little towns.
3. transitive. To put forth as buds; to produce by gemmation; also with forth and out. Also figurative.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [verb (transitive)] > develop
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1568 V. Skinner tr. R. González de Montes Discouery Inquisition of Spayne Pref. sig. B.iv It buddeth forth such pestilent blossomes.
1591 E. Spenser tr. J. du Bellay Visions in Complaints 138 This Hydra..With seuen heads, budding monstrous crimes.
1851 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca i. 49 The power they [sc. zoophytes] possess of budding out new individuals.
1869 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. (1880) lviii. 520 Within the branchial chamber [of the tadpole]..the fore-limbs are budded forth.
4. To bring into bud, cause to bud; also figurative.
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the world > plants > part of plant > bud > [verb (transitive)]
germin?1440
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1604 M. Drayton Owle sig. B The strength and fervour of whose pregnant ray, Buds euery branche and blossomes euery spray.
?a1700 Hawthorn Tree in F. J. Child Ballads I. 313 Next yere againe I will be sene To bude my branches.
1852 M. F. Tupper Proverb. Philos. 403 When did the body elevate, expand, and bud the mind?
5. Horticulture. To ingraft by inserting a bud of a shrub or tree under the bark of another ‘stock’, for the purpose of raising flowers or fruit different from those of the stock. Also absol.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > propagate [verb (transitive)] > a cutting: graft > graft by budding
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1663 A. Cowley Ess. in Verse & Prose (1669) 119 We no where Art do so triumphant see, As when it Grafs or Buds the Tree.
1666 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 2) 34 Stocks to bud Oranges and Lemmons on.
1691 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 8) 43 You may..Bud at the end of this Month.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Laurel Grafted or budded upon black Cherry Stalks.
1853 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 73 131 He grafted, and budded, and hybridised.
1856 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Flower Garden 138 To be budded on the Musk Rose.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
† budv.2
Scottish.
transitive. To bribe.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [verb (transitive)] > bribe
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to feed with money1567
to put out a person's eyes with (a gift, bribe, etc.)1580
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to grease the fist or (one) in the fist1598
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to buy off1629
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to take off1646
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bub1684
to speak to ——1687
to tickle in the palm1694
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overbuy1710
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to get at ——1780
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to buy over1848
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to get to ——1901
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to keep (someone) sweet1939
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to pay off1942
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c1565 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1728) 148 They budded the king to bide at home.
c1600 Hist. & Life James VI (1825) 120 Mortoun..buddit Tullibardin with the office of the Comptrollar.
1636 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. lxiii. 169 To bud and bribe the Cross.
1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem i. 93 It's very like, at others budding, He turn'd his Coat for Cake and Pudding.
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