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動詞

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

1. (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

参照

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

アナグラム

• bud out, dub out