different between bud vs nubbin

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?d, IPA^(key): /b?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Etymology 1

From Middle English budde (“bud, seed pod”), from Proto-Germanic *budd? (compare Dutch bot (“bud”), German Hagebutte (“hip, rosehip”), regional German Butzen (“seed pod”), Swedish dialect bodd (“head”)), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *b?ew-, *bu- (“to swell”).

Noun

bud (countable and uncountable, plural buds)

1. A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.

   Synonym: budset

2. (figuratively) Something that has begun to develop.

3. A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.

4. (usually uncountable, slang) Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the “bud”), or marijuana generally.

   Synonyms: nug, marijuana; see also Thesaurus:marijuana

5. A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.
6. (dated, term of endearment) A pretty young girl.
   • 1874, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, a Popular Journal of General Literature

Derived terms

• buddy (adjective)
• bud of promise
• nip in the bud
• redbud
• taste bud

Translations

Verb

bud (third-person singular simple present buds, present participle budding, simple past and past participle budded)

1. (intransitive) To form buds.

2. (intransitive) To reproduce by splitting off buds.

3. (intransitive) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
4. (intransitive) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

     Young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet, / Whither away, or where is thy abode?

5. (transitive) To put forth as a bud.
   • 2013, Julie Brown, The Brownstone (page 263)

     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: […]
6. (transitive) To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.

Translations

Etymology 2

Back-formation from buddy.

Noun

bud (plural buds)

1. (informal, Canada, US) Buddy, friend.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:friend
2. (informal) used to address a male

Translations

Further reading

• bud on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• BDU, DBU, DUB, Dub, Dub., dub

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *b?t.

Noun

bud (definite accusative budu, plural budlar)

1. (now dated) thigh

   Synonym: omba

2. gammon
3. rump (a cut of meat from the rump of an animal)
4. chicken drumstick

Declension

Further reading

• “bud” in Obastan.com.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?but]
• Rhymes: -ut

Noun

bud

1. genitive plural of bouda

Anagrams

• dub

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish buth n, from Old East Norse buð n, from Proto-Germanic *bud? (“offer, message”), cognate with Swedish bud, Dutch bod, German Gebot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b?uð]
• Rhymes: -uð

Noun

bud n (singular definite buddet, plural indefinite bud)

1. command
2. message
3. offer
4. bid
5. guess

Inflection

Related terms

• budskab n
• de ti bud c pl

Noun

bud n (singular definite buddet, plural indefinite bude)

1. messenger
2. delivery man, errand boy (of any gender)

Inflection

Related terms

• budbringer c

References

• “bud” in Den Danske Ordbog

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Danish boð, from Old Danish buth, from Old East Norse buð, from Proto-Germanic *bud?.

Noun

bud n (definite singular budet, indefinite plural bud, definite plural buda or budene)

1. a bid or offer (to buy)
2. a command, order
3. a commandment (e.g. Ten Commandments)
4. a message
5. a messenger, courier

Derived terms

• budbringer
• budbærer
• postbud
• sendebud

See also

• bod (Nynorsk)

References

• “bud” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

bud f (definite singular budi, indefinite plural buder, definite plural buderne)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 1917; superseded by bu

Scots

Alternative forms

• budd, bude

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?d/

Noun

bud (plural buds)

1. (16th-century, archaic, poetic) A bribe or reward.

Verb

bud (third-person singular present buds, present participle budin, past budt, past participle budt)

1. (archaic) Must, had to.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish buþ, from Old East Norse buð, from Proto-Germanic *bud? (“offer, message”), cognate with Danish bud, Dutch bod, German Gebot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?d/
• Rhymes: -??d

Noun

bud n

1. a message (also budskap)
2. a commandment (as in the Ten Commandments; also budord), a rule that must be obeyed (also påbud)
3. a bid, an offer (also anbud)
4. a messenger (also budbärare, sändebud)
5. someone who delivers packages or parcels (also budbil, cykelbud, paketbud)

Declension

Volapük

Proper noun

bud

1. Buddhism

Declension

Derived terms

• budan
• budik

English

Etymology

Perhaps nub +? -in.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?b?n/

Noun

nubbin (plural nubbins)

1. A stub, especially a stub of undeveloped corn or fruit or nipple.
2. (informal) A small protuberance, bud, bump, or knob.

   As an avid button collector, I have had to develop an efficient way of removing the nubbin of thread from the buttonhole.

3. (slang) The clitoris.

References

• nubbin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “nubbin” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “nubbin”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?nub?bi?n/

Adjective

nubbin

1. essive of nubbi