outbud

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ bud.

Verb

outbud (third-person singular simple present outbuds, present participle outbudding, simple past and past participle outbudded)

1. (poetic, ambitransitive) 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