outbud
English
editEtymology
editVerb
editoutbud (third-person singular simple present outbuds, present participle outbudding, simple past and past participle outbudded)
- (poetic, transitive, intransitive) To sprout.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- that renowmed snake […] Whose many heades out-budding ever new
- 1842, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Halloween:
- Oh, to die in the Spring-time, the young joyous Spring,
When scarce have outbudded the sprigs that they fling
References
edit- “outbud”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.