Meanings
verboutbud (third-person singular simple present outbuds, present participle outbudding, simple past and past participle outbudded)
present singular third person outbuds · participle present outbudding · participle past outbudded · past outbudded
- ambitransitivepoeticTo sprout.
that renowmed snake […]Whose many heades out-budding ever new
1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC1 more example
Oh, to die in the Spring-time, the young joyous Spring, When scarce have outbudded the sprigs that they fling
1842, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Halloween
Origin
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “outbud,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outbud.
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