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”).
Synonyms
MJ, Mary Jane, Mary Joanna, Texas tea, babber, benj, bhang, billy, boo, bredrin, broccoli, bruv, bud, buddha, buddo, buddy, budset, butty, cannabis, chaver, cheeba, china, choof, chuck, chum, cobber, cock, cocker, compadre, companion, comrade, cove, crony, daccha, dank, dawg, devil's lettuce, djamba, doobage, dope, duck, dude, endo, fam, fettler, friend, gage, ganj, ganja, geez, geezer, gink, good old boy, grass, green, greenery, guy, hash, hashish, hemp, herb, homeskillet, homie, kith, lover, marihoochie, marijuana, marrow, mate, matey, method, mezz, mucker, muggle, mull, nug, old bean, pal, pardner, peeps, pot, puff, reefer, sensimilla, sensimillia, shag, shit, sport, surry, sweetleaf, tea, term of address for a man or person, tovarish, trees, twig, wacky tobaccy, wantok, weed, yarndie, zaza, zombie
Scrabble Score: 6
bud: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordbud: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
bud: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary