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, malteworme [1499 boude of malte].
c. 1475. Pict. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 767. Nomina Muscarum, Hec polumita a bude, Hic stabo a scarbude. See BOUD.]
