a. rare. [f. BUD sb.1 + -Y1.]
a. Full of buds. b. Like a bud.
1598. Florio, Fronzuto, stalkie, buddie, spriggie.
1611. Cotgr., Fillole, a buddie knob in a vine, like a wart.
1862. Thackeray, Roundab. Papers (1879), 115. Here are the scourges! choose me a nice, long, swishing, buddy one.
1871. G. Macdonald, Roadside P., 209. Buddy dots of light.
