Middle English Dictionary Entry
budden v.
Entry Info
| Forms | budden v. Also bodden. |
| Etymology | From budde n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
To send forth buds, sprouts, sprays, roots; bud, sprout; budded, budding, in bud.
Associated quotations
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.140 : Sche made a drynke..In whiche a ȝerde that was drye..To blosme and budde it be-gan.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.5665 : Þe spere..gan anon..To florische & floure & buddyn by myracle.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)54 : Buddun' as trees: Gemmo, pampino, pululo, frondeo.
- ?a1450(1422) Lydg.SD (McC 182)55/25 : Þe vegitatife vertu..ascendit into brawnches and bowes and causith hem to budde and blossome newe.
- c1450(?c1408) Lydg.RS (Frf 16)6208 : He bare in his sheelde a Rose, Budded as hyt wolde vnclose.
- a1500 Henley Husb.(Sln 686)48 : Þe corne..is but tender and þe rote þer off is but newly budid or put ovte.
- a1500 *MS Ashm.1443 (Ashm 1443)p.306 : Þe blynd nettil with whyte boddynge flowris.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- ?c1400(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Roy 17.D.1)f.109rb (3.18) : Þe heuedes of þo veyns ar knoddishe and knarlish and somtyme þai bud oute like sowes bigges.
Note: ?New sense, or ?phrase, or ?fig. sense. Editor's gloss: bud, v. pr. pl. ~ out 'swell outward, form bud-like swellings'.