bud or butt???!

which do you say?


i swear when i was little i thought it was butt. even now that i say bud, i still have a mental image of someone getting pinched in the butt.:lmao

just wondering if anyone else says butt?

bud

I don't think I've ever heard anyone say butt for it! :dunno

Bud!

Bud

bud :grin: thats the only way it makes sense to me lol.

bud.

i wanted to vote kiss my butt tho cuz it gave me a good giggle

I've always said "nip it in the bud" too....but after I read your post, I got a visual of someone getting bitten in the butt! LOL! Kinda like a little doggy nip!

I use to say butt, cause I was little lol

Bud

Bud. Never heard butt used before.

Nip in the bud

Meaning

Put a stop to something while it is still in its early development.

Origin

This phrase clearly derives by allusion to the de-budding of plants. the earlier form of the phrase was 'nip in the bloom' and this is cited in Henry Chettle's romance Piers Plainnes Seaven Yeres Prentiship, 1595:

"Extinguish these fond loues with minds labour, and nip thy affections in the bloome, that they may neuer bee of power to budde."

A version of the current 'bud' version of the phrase first appears in 1607, in Beaumont and Fletcher's comedy of manners Woman Hater (a title that they would probably have difficulty convincing a publishing house to use today):

"Yet I can frowne and nip a passion Euen in the bud."

I say butt

Definitely bud

bud

haha bud

i've always said butt. i had no idea :hide
:lol

Bud

I say bud now, but I used to think it was butt too... :lol

i say butt. i thought it was butt not bud.... oh well :lol

I say bud even though I don't think it makes much sense.

Bud! Its referring to pruning a flower when its still a bud.