rosebud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹəʊz.bʌd/
ipa: /ˈɹoʊz.bʌd/
Forms: form: rosebuds
Etymology: From rose + bud.
Senses: examples: text: Gather ye Roſe-buds vvhile ye may, / Old Time is ſtill a flying: / And this ſame flovver, that ſmiles to day; / To morrovv vvill be dying.
ref: 1648, Robert Herrick, “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, stanza 1, page 93:
glosses: The bud of a rose.
glosses: A pretty young woman.
raw_tags: as a term of endearment
glosses: A debutante.
glosses: Any of assorted small seashells with a pink or partially pink color, usually of the family Muricidae.
synonyms: word: bazoo
word: cakehole
word: chops
word: clam
word: clamshell
word: gob
word: hash-trap
word: kisser
word: laughing gear
word: maw
word: mouth
word: mush
word: neb
word: ned
word: north and south
word: oral cavity
word: os
word: piehole
word: potato trap
word: puss
word: sucker
word: trap
word: yap
glosses: A mouth.
glosses: the indentation of a surface caused by an incorrect hammer strike (missing the nail)
examples: text: Her ass was the ultimate goal for both of us, but I wanted to draw out the anticipation. […] She watched from between her knees as I prepared to push into her rosebud.
ref: 2017, Penthouse Variations on Anal:
text: Squeezing a healthy dollop of lube onto her rosebud, he stretched the tight ring and forced more lubrication into her ass.
ref: 2017, Corinne Davies, The 3xtasy Lake Collection, volume 2, page 128:
text: He withdrew his tongue from her ass and traced little patterns across her rosebud with a fingertip […]
ref: 2018, Rachel Blues, Anal Sex Stories:
synonyms: word: a-hole
word: anus
word: arsehole
word: arse
word: asscunt
word: asshole
word: asspussy
word: ass
word: back alley
word: back door
word: back passage
word: balloon knot
word: batty
word: batty hole
word: bootyhole
word: bottom
word: brown eye
word: browneye
word: bumhole
word: bum
word: bung-hole
word: bunghole
word: bungus
word: butthole
word: buttonhole
word: chocolate channel
word: chocolate starfish
word: chuff
word: cinnamon ring
word: clacka
word: clacker
word: cornhole
word: craphole
word: cumhole
word: dinger
word: ding
word: dock
word: dookie hole
word: dung funnel
word: exit hole
word: fartbox
word: farthole
word: fourth point of contact
word: freckle
word: fuckhole
word: fudge tunnel
word: fundament
word: Gary Glitter
word: gump stump
word: Hershey highway
word: jacksie
word: jacksy
word: keister
word: leather cheerio
word: love hole
word: other end
word: poop chute
word: pooper
word: poophole
word: rectum
word: ringpiece
word: rosebud
word: rusty sheriff's badge
word: shithole
word: shitter
word: sluthole
word: smelly freckle
word: starfish
word: stinkhole
word: tewel
word: tooter
word: tradesman's entrance
word: turd cutter
word: vent
word: wazoo
word: where the sun don't shine
word: windpipe
word: ying-yang
glosses: The anus.
examples: text: His thumbs spread her woman's center so he could fit his mouth more closely and enter her with his tongue. Now she could not contain her cries of excitement. The tip of his tongue licked the hard rosebud hidden within, then circled it slowly over and over until she was swollen with need.
ref: 1993 October 24, Virginia Henley, chapter 19, in Bold Conquest, Avon Books, page 271:
text: Her plea was ignored entirely. He stood over her, crowding her with his powerful body, and tugged the tunic from her nerveless grasp. “Do you remember how I plied the wet rosebud between your thighs?” Holding her gaze, he traced a finger between her breasts, downward to her narrow waist, drawing his hand slowly, lingeringly, over her skin. “I could show you such pleasure again, sweeting. ...”
ref: 1995 March 24, Nicole Jordan, chapter 11, in The Warrior, Avon Books, page 181:
text: To obtain an even better effect I managed to pull the seam right up into my cunney so that the shape of my generous outer lips would be revealed and even the swollen rosebud of my clitty could be discerned especially - as I didn’t put any knickers on and was totally nude underneath.
ref: 2005, anonymous author, chapter 4, in Cremorne Gardens, Blue Moon Books, page 160:
synonyms: word: bean
word: butter bean
word: boy in the boat
word: button
word: clit
word: clitoris
word: devil's doorbell
word: happy button
word: jewel
word: kernel
word: knob
word: little man in the boat
word: lovebud
word: love button
word: nub
word: nubbin
word: panic button
word: pearl
word: skittle
word: sugar plum
word: sweet spot
glosses: The clitoris.
examples: text: I gasped when I felt the powerful spray from the shower against my breasts. First one, then the other. My rosebuds swelled up immediately, red and stiff. She sprayed between my breasts and on the small of my back. Then she quit for a minute.
ref: 1969, Jens Bjørneboe, chapter 6, in Without a Stitch, Grove Press, page 137:
text: Caleb lifted her above him, accepting the hard rosebud of her nipple into his mouth as he drank from her. ‘You're beautiful’, Cat, he groaned as he rolled over so that she was the one beneath him. ‘So very beautiful.’
ref: 1986 August 24, Carole Mortimer, chapter 8, in No Longer A Dream, Harlequin Books, page 152:
text: He could see the fullness of her beautiful breasts, tipped with their rosebuds, through the fine cotton. They seemed to be begging for him to caress and kiss them.
ref: 2005, Hermione Steele, chapter 37, in Love Goes West, AuthorHouse, page 345:
synonyms: word: nipples
word: blinkers
word: braille
word: bullets
word: bumps
word: chichis
word: circuit breakers
word: cookies
word: daggers
word: diamond cutters
word: dinner plates
word: glass cutters
word: high beams
word: headlights
word: horns
word: nertz
word: nips
word: nubbins
word: pancakes
word: paps
word: pimentos
word: pointers
word: points
word: raisins
word: silver dollars
word: teats
word: tits
word: thermometers
glosses: A woman's nipples, namely when erect.
Derived terms: gather rosebuds
rosebudding