outbud
verbEtymology From out- + bud.
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Ambitransitive, Poetic To sprout.
- that renowmed snake […]Whose many heades out-budding ever new1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Oh, to die in the Spring-time, the young joyous Spring, When scarce have outbudded the sprigs that they fling1842, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Halloween: