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Bud vs Bub - What's the difference?

bud | bub |

As nouns the difference between bud and bub

is that bud is a newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded while bub is an alcoholic malt liquor, especially beer.

As verbs the difference between bud and bub

is that bud is to form buds while bub is to throw out in bubbles; to bubble.

As a proper noun Bud

is a male nickname.

bud

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) budde 'bud, seedpod', from (etyl) .

Noun

(wikipedia bud) (en noun)
  • A newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded.
    • After a long, cold winter, the trees finally began to produce buds .
  • (usually uncountable, slang) Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the bud ), or marijuana generally.
    • Hey bro, want to smoke some bud ?
  • A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.
    • In this slide, you can see a yeast cell forming buds .
  • A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.
    • Synonyms
    * (marijuana) nug; see also
    Derived terms
    * redbud * taste bud * bud of promise

    Verb

    (budd)
  • To form buds.
    • The trees are finally starting to bud .
  • To reproduce by splitting off buds.
    • Yeast reproduces by budding .
  • To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
  • To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.
    • a budding virgin
    (Shakespeare)

    Etymology 2

    From (buddy).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) Buddy, friend.
    • I like to hang out with my buds on Saturday night.
  • (informal) (used to address a male)
    • Synonyms
    * See also

    Anagrams

    * * English terms of address ----

    bub

    English

    Etymology 1

    Probably imitative of the sound of drinking.

    Noun

    (-)
  • (slang, historical) An alcoholic malt liquor, especially beer.
  • * 1838 , Samuel Morewood, A Philosophical and Statistical History of the Inventions and Customs of Ancient and Modern Nations in the Manufacture and Use of Inebriating Liquors , page 662,
    • Bub is made from ground barley and strong worts, and sometimes from strong small worts from the coolers, properly blended and boiled with some hops, in the proportion of one pound to a barrel of worts.

    Etymology 2

    Contraction of (bubby).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A woman's breast.
  • * 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Penguin 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 631:
  • *:‘Mr. Blanford, I esteem that there is nothing more sublime in nature than a glimpse of an English lady's bubs .’

    • Etymology 3

    Either a corruption of (brother), a modification of '' ("close [male] relation"), and is thus cognate to English ''boy'', ''babe'', ''baby'' and ''bully .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A term of familiar address; bubba; bubby.
  • * 1857 , T. B. Aldrich, What Jedd Pallfry found in the Coffin'', '' , Volume 49, page 23,
    • So he changed his brusque manner, and inquired, in a tone which was intended to be extremely conciliatory :
    ‘ What?s your name, bub ? ’
    ‘ The last one, Sir ? ’ asked bub , looking up.
  • * 1857 , Clara Augusta, Mrs. Peter Dame'', George R. Graham, ''Graham?s Illustrated Magazine , Volume 50, page 398,
    • Mrs. Peter filled her pocket with the cherries — “ Victoria and bub are so fond of them!” and we scrambled into the wagon.
  • A young brother; a little boy; a familiar term of address for a small boy.

    • Etymology 4

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia, slang) A baby.

    • Etymology 5

    Shortened from (bubble) and (bubbly).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) champagne; bubbly.

    • Verb

    (bubb)
  • (obsolete) To throw out in bubbles; to bubble.
    • (Sackville)
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