Bud vs. Dud — What's the Difference?

In botany, a bud is an undeveloped or embryonic shoot and normally occurs in the axil of a leaf or at the tip of a stem. Once formed, a bud may remain for some time in a dormant condition, or it may form a shoot immediately.

A dud is an ammunition round or explosive that fails to fire or detonate, respectively, on time or on command. Poorly designed devices (for example, improvised explosive devices (IEDs)), and small devices, have higher chances of being duds.Duds are still dangerous, and can explode if handled.

A small protuberance on a stem or branch, sometimes enclosed in protective scales and containing an undeveloped leaf, flower, or leafy shoot.

A bomb, shell, or explosive round that fails to detonate.

The stage or condition of having buds

(Informal) One that is disappointingly ineffective or unsuccessful.

Flowers from a female cannabis plant, especially after being harvested and prepared for smoking or other use

Clothing.

A single flower of a cannabis plant, especially a female flower

Personal belongings.

An asexual reproductive structure, as in yeast or a hydra, that consists of an outgrowth capable of developing into a new individual.

(informal) A device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work, such as a bomb, or explosive projectile.

A small, rounded organic part, such as a taste bud, that resembles a plant bud.

(informal) A failure of any kind.

One that is not yet fully developed

(informal) A loser; an unlucky person.

An earbud.

A lottery ticket that does not give a payout.

Friend; chum. Used as a form of familiar address, especially for a man or boy

Clothes, now always used in plural form duds.

To put forth or produce buds

Someone who is unsuccessful

To develop or grow from or as if from a bud

An explosion that fails to occur

To be in an undeveloped stage or condition.

An event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual;

To reproduce asexually by forming a bud.

Failing to detonate; especially not charged with an active explosive;

To cause to put forth buds.

To graft a bud onto (a plant).

A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.

(figuratively) Something that has begun to develop.

A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.

Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the "bud"), or marijuana generally.

A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.

A pretty young girl.

Buddy, friend.

Used to address a male

(intransitive) To form buds.

(intransitive) To reproduce by splitting off buds.

(intransitive) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.

(intransitive) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.

(transitive) To put forth as a bud.

(transitive) To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.

A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flower.

A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See Hydra.

To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot.

To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.

To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin.

To graft, as a plant with another or into another, by inserting a bud from the one into an opening in the bark of the other, in order to raise, upon the budded stock, fruit different from that which it would naturally bear.

A partially opened flower

A swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals

Develop buds;

Start to grow or develop;