outbud

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English

Etymology

From out- +‎ bud.

Verb

outbud (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

“outbud”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

bud out, dub out

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