bud vs intimate

bud

noun
  • Buddy, friend. 

  • used to address a male 

  • A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded. 

  • Something that has begun to develop. 

  • Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the "bud"), or marijuana generally. 

  • A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism. 

  • A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud. 

verb
  • To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn. 

  • To put forth as a bud. 

  • To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree. 

  • To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise. 

  • To reproduce by splitting off buds. 

  • To form buds. 

intimate

noun
  • A very close friend. 

  • Women's underwear, sleepwear, or lingerie, especially offered for sale in a store. 

verb
  • To suggest or disclose (something) discreetly. 

  • To notify. 

adj
  • Pertaining to details that require great familiarity to know. 

  • Closely acquainted; familiar. 

  • Very finely mixed. 

  • Of or involved in a sexual relationship. 

  • Personal; private. 

How often have the words bud and intimate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )