Definition of BUD

bud

Plural: buds

Noun

  • a partially opened flower
  • a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals
  • A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.
  • Something that has begun to develop.
  • A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.
  • Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the "bud"), or marijuana generally.
  • Cannabis that has been taken from the flowering part of the plant intended to be smoked.
  • Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the "bud"), or marijuana generally.
  • Marijuana.
  • A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.
  • A pretty young girl.
  • Buddy, friend.
  • Synonym of guy, term of address for a man or person.

Verb

Verb Forms: budded, budding, buds

  • To put forth new growth or shoots, like a plant.
  • develop buds
    • "The hibiscus is budding!"
  • start to grow or develop
    • "a budding friendship"
  • To form buds.
  • To reproduce by splitting off buds.
  • To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
  • To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.
  • To put forth as a bud.
  • To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.

Examples

  • After a long, cold winter, the trees finally began to produce buds.
  • breast buds
  • Hey bro, want to smoke some bud?
  • His confidence began to bud as he spotted a potential bingo word on his Words With Friends rack.
  • I like to hang out with my buds on Saturday night.
  • In this slide, you can see a yeast cell forming buds.
  • The trees are finally starting to bud.
  • Yeast reproduces by budding.
  • You got any buds?

Origin / Etymology

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

Scrabble Score: 6

bud: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
bud: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
bud: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 8

bud: valid Words With Friends Word