bud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bŭd
ipa: /bʌd/
rhymes: -ʌd
Forms: form: buds
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”).
Senses: examples: text: After a long, cold winter, the trees finally began to produce buds.
text: Among Turks, pills consisting of hemp buds, muscat nuts, saffron, and honey were a popular aphrodisiac.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 113:
synonyms: budset
glosses: A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.
examples: text: breast buds
glosses: Something that has begun to develop.
examples: text: In this slide, you can see a yeast cell forming buds.
glosses: A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.
examples: text: You got any buds?
synonyms: word: nug
word: marijuana
word: bhang
word: benj
word: boo
word: broccoli
word: bud
word: buddha
word: cannabis
word: cheeba
word: choof
word: daccha
word: dank
word: devil's lettuce
word: djamba
word: doja
word: doobage
word: dope
word: endo
word: gage
word: ganja
word: ganj
word: grass
word: green
word: greenery
word: hash
word: hashish
word: hemp
word: herb
word: Mary Jane
word: MJ
word: marihoochie
word: marijuana
word: Mary Joanna
word: method
word: mezz
word: muggle
word: mull
word: pot
word: puff
word: reefer
word: sens
word: sensimillia
word: sensimilla
word: shit
word: sweetleaf
word: tea
word: Texas tea
word: trees
word: twig
word: wacky tobaccy
word: weed
word: yarndie
word: zaza
word: zombie
glosses: 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.
examples: text: Hey bro, want to smoke some bud?
synonyms: word: nug
word: marijuana
word: bhang
word: benj
word: boo
word: broccoli
word: bud
word: buddha
word: cannabis
word: cheeba
word: choof
word: daccha
word: dank
word: devil's lettuce
word: djamba
word: doja
word: doobage
word: dope
word: endo
word: gage
word: ganja
word: ganj
word: grass
word: green
word: greenery
word: hash
word: hashish
word: hemp
word: herb
word: Mary Jane
word: MJ
word: marihoochie
word: marijuana
word: Mary Joanna
word: method
word: mezz
word: muggle
word: mull
word: pot
word: puff
word: reefer
word: sens
word: sensimillia
word: sensimilla
word: shit
word: sweetleaf
word: tea
word: Texas tea
word: trees
word: twig
word: wacky tobaccy
word: weed
word: yarndie
word: zaza
word: zombie
glosses: Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the "bud"), or marijuana generally.
Marijuana.
glosses: A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1874, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, a Popular Journal of General Literature:
qualifier: term of endearment
glosses: A pretty young girl.
Derived terms: abud
bud borer
budburst
buddy
bud grafting
budless
budlet
budlike
budling
budmoth
bud moth
bud of promise
budtender
budwood
budworm
cotton bud
cotton wool bud
cuckoobud
debud
disbud
ear bud
ear-bud
endbud
farcy 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
rum bud
rumbud
seed-bud
strawberry bud weevil
tailbud
taste bud
tastebud