Definitions for Bud

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Bud bud

Spelling: [buhd]

IPA: /bʌd/

Bud is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 15 anagrams from letters in Bud (bdu).

Definitions for Bud

noun

1. Botany. a small axillary or terminal protuberance on a plant, containing rudimentary foliage (leaf bud) the rudimentary inflorescence (flower bud) or both (mixed bud) an undeveloped or rudimentary stem or branch of a plant.
2. Zoology. (in certain animals of low organization) a prominence that develops into a new individual, sometimes permanently attached to the parent and sometimes becoming detached; gemma.
3. Mycology. a small, rounded outgrowth produced from a fungus spore or cell by a process of asexual reproduction, eventually separating from the parent cell as a new individual: commonly produced by yeast and a few other fungi.
4. Anatomy. any small rounded part.
5. an immature or undeveloped person or thing.
6. Slang. marijuana, especially potent marijuana from the buds, or flowering tops, of the hemp plant.
7. brother; buddy (used in informal address, as to one's brother or to a man or boy whose name is not known to the speaker).
8. a male given name.
9. Berenice, 1898–1991, U.S. photographer.
10. Edith, 1876–1957, and her sister Grace, 1878–1939, U.S. social reformers.
11. Edville Gerhardt [ed-vil gair-hahrt] /ˈɛd vɪl ˈgɛər hɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1871–1938, U.S. orthopedist.
12. George, 1887–1995, U.S. playwright, director, and producer.
13. Jacob, 1803–79, and his son, Lyman, 1835–1922, U.S. clergymen and writers.
14. Sir John Joseph Caldwell, 1821–93, Canadian political leader: prime minister 1891–92.
15. Robert Sengstake [seng-stak] /ˈsɛŋ stæk/ (Show IPA), 1868–1940, U.S. newspaper publisher.
16. William ("Bud") 1898–1974, U.S. actor, producer, and comedian, best known as the straight man of Abbott and Costello.
17. Adam Clayton, Jr. 1908–72, U.S. clergyman, politician, and civil-rights leader: congressman 1945–67, 1969–71.
18. Anthony, 1905–2000, English author.
19. Cecil Frank, 1903–69, English physicist: Nobel prize 1950.
20. Colin [koh-lin,, kol-in] /ˈkoʊ lɪn,, ˈkɒl ɪn/ (Show IPA), born 1937, U.S. general: chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff 1989–96; secretary of state 2001–05.
21. Earl (Bud) 1924–66, U.S. jazz pianist and composer.
22. John Wesley, 1834–1902, U.S. geologist and ethnologist.
23. Lewis Franklin, Jr. 1907–1998, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1972–87.
24. Lake, an artificial reservoir on the border of SE Utah and NE Arizona, on the Colorado River, formed by the construction of a dam (Glen Canyon Dam) (completed 1964). 186 miles (300 km) long.

Idioms

1. in the bud, in an immature or undeveloped state: Also, in bud.
2. nip in the bud, to stop (something) in the beginning of its development:

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to bud.
2. Horticulture. to graft by inserting a single bud into the stock.

verb (used without object)

1. to put forth or produce buds.
2. to begin to develop.
3. to be in an early stage of development.

Origin of Bud

1350-1400; Middle English budde bud, spray, pod; akin to German Hagebutte hip, Old Norse budda purse, dialectal Swedish bodd head, Dutch buidel bag, purse, Middle Low German buddich swollen

Examples for Bud

It was evident that bud had no objection to this nor to anything else, for that matter.

Yeah,” he says finally, squelching his giggles by downing half a bottle of bud, “that sounds like Ray.

Can you imagine bud Powell or Charlie Parker writing a jingle?

But he added, softly: "Sleep on it, bud; I'll let ye change your mind in the mornin'."

Cartwright, in his most impressive manner, stepped a foot closer to bud's chair.

He owns a smallish vaporizer that still looks like it came from the future, and buys wax instead of bud.

But this year, at the first bud, her heart seemed to beat more quickly.

We never see Him bring the bud to the eve of blossoming just to wither it.

It is your best shot at nipping any future wedding invites (and accompanying airfare to Missouri) in the bud.

Lebanese security agencies have been quick to try to nip what could well be a new bombing spate in the bud.