† budde Obs.
Forms: 1 budda, 5 budde (? bude, bowde): see also boud.
[Of unknown etymology: the relation of the earlier budda, budde, with short u, to the later bowde, boud, with long vowel or diphthong, is also uncertain.]
An insect; ? a beetle of some kind: cf. boud, weevil.
| a 1200 Semi-Saxon Vocab. in Wr.-Wülcker 543 Scarabæus, scearnbudoa uel budda. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 54 Budde of a tree, gemma. Budde Flye. [cf. ibid. 46 Bowde, malte-worme [1499 boude of malte]. c 1475 Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 767 Nomina Muscarum, Hec polumita a bude, Hic stabo a scarbude. See boud.] |