bud
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Is bud a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (figuratively) Something that has begun to develop.Examples: "breast buds"countablefigurativelyuncountable
2. (usually uncountable, slang) Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the "bud"), or marijuana generally.Examples: "You got any buds?"Synonyms: nug, marijuana, bhang, benj, boo, broccoli, bud, buddhaAustraliaCanadaUScountableplural-normallyslanguncountableusually
3. (usually uncountable, slang) Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the "bud"), or marijuana generally.Examples: "Hey bro, want to smoke some bud?"Synonyms: nug, marijuana, bhang, benj, boo, broccoli, bud, buddhaAustraliaCanadaUSslanguncountableusually
4. (dated, term of endearment) A pretty young girl.Examples: "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."countabledateduncountable
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To form buds.Examples: "The trees are finally starting to bud."; "And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds."intransitive
2. (intransitive) To reproduce by splitting off buds.Examples: "Yeast reproduces by budding."intransitive
3. (intransitive) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.intransitive
4. (intransitive) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.Examples: "Young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet, / Whither away, or where is thy abode?"intransitive
5. (transitive) To put forth as a bud.Examples: "What appeared the same to us really wasn't. Every day was different, if we looked closely enough. Like the topiary tree that finally budded a rose after Terrence died: […]"; "Once, he was put on a course of potent hormone pills, coming off them when he woke up one morning to discover he was budding breasts"transitive
6. (transitive) To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.transitive
noun (English)
1. (informal, Canada, US) Buddy, friend.Examples: "I like to hang out with my buds on Saturday night."; "Anna's best bud, John (Malcolm Cumming), harbors a secret crush on her, which is indicative of the lazier, more derivative portions of the story that simply repeat tropes rather than comment on them."Synonyms: babber, billy, bredrin, bruv, bud, buddo, buddy, buttyCanadaUSinformal
2. (informal, chiefly Canada) Synonym of guy, term of address for a man or person.Examples: "[T]hen he shrugged his shoulders and said, with admirable philosophy: "Well, that's life, ain't it, bud?""Synonyms: guy, term of address for a man or personCanadainformal
name (English)
1. (rare, chiefly Southern US) A male given name from English.Southern-USrare
name (English)
1. (informal) A Budweiser beer.Examples: "I'd like a Bud, please."informal
noun (English)
1. (pathology) Initialism of benzodiazepine use disorder.abbreviationalt-ofcountableinitialismuncountable
2. (informal, telecommunications) Initialism of big ugly dish.Examples: "I spend substantially less time fiddling with the 4dtv than I did with my HTS Premier 70, to say the least. As far as quality goes, it puts the SLD to shame. With the BUD my 53" picture is outstanding. With DTV/USSB it looked like crap."abbreviationalt-ofcountableinformalinitialismuncountable
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