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bun·ting1    Audio Help   [buhn-ting] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a coarse, open fabric of worsted or cotton for flags, signals, etc.
2.patriotic and festive decorations made from such cloth, or from paper, usually in the form of draperies, wide streamers, etc., in the colors of the national flag.
3.flags, esp. a vessel's flags, collectively.
[Origin: 1735–45; perh. orig. “sifting cloth,” hence bunt to sift (ME bonten) + -ing1]
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bun·ting2    Audio Help   [buhn-ting] Pronunciation Key
–noun
any of several small, chiefly seed-eating birds of the genera Emberiza, Passerina, and Plectrophenax.

[Origin: 1250–1300; ME < ?]
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bun·ting3    Audio Help   [buhn-ting] Pronunciation Key
–noun
a hooded sleeping garment for infants.
Also called sleeper.

[Origin: 1920–25; special use of bunting1]
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bunt 1    Audio Help   (bŭnt)  Pronunciation Key 
v.   bunt·ed, bunt·ing, bunts

v.   tr.
  1. Baseball
    1. To bat (a pitched ball) by tapping it lightly so that the ball rolls slowly in front of the infielders.
    2. To cause (a base runner) to advance or (a run) to score by bunting.
  2. To push or strike with or as if with the head; butt.

v.   intr.
  1. Baseball To bunt a pitched ball: The batter squared away to bunt.
  2. To butt.

n.  
  1. Baseball
    1. The act of bunting.
    2. A bunted ball.
  2. A butt with or as if with the head.


[Dialectal, to push, strike.]

bunt'er n.
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bunt·ing 1    Audio Help   (bŭn'tĭng)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A light cotton or woolen cloth used for making flags.
  2. Flags considered as a group.
  3. Strips of cloth or material usually in the colors of the national flag, used especially as drapery or streamers for festive decoration.


[Perhaps from German bunt, colored.]

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bunt·ing 2    Audio Help   (bŭn'tĭng)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   Any of various birds of the family Fringillidae, having short, cone-shaped bills and brownish or grayish plumage.


[Middle English.]

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bunt·ing 3    Audio Help   (bŭn'tĭng)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   A snug-fitting, hooded sleeping bag of heavy material for infants.


[Perhaps from Scots buntin, plump, short.]

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bunting  (1)
"flag material," 1742, perhaps from M.E. bonting gerundive of bonten "to sift," because cloth was used for sifting grain, via O.Fr. from V.L. *bonitare "to make good."

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bunting  (2)
"type of lark-like bird," c.1300, bountyng, maybe from buntin "plump" (cf. baby bunting, also Scots buntin "short and thick;" Welsh bontin "rump," and bontinog "big-assed"), or a double dim. of Fr. bon.

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bunting

noun
1. a loosely woven fabric used for flags, etc. 
2. any of numerous seed-eating songbirds of Europe or North America 

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bunting [ˈbantiŋ] noun
flags for use in celebrations
Arabic: الدُّرسه: طائِر
Chinese (Simplified): 旗帜
Chinese (Traditional): 旗幟
Czech: vlajkosláva, prapor
Danish: flagguirlande
Dutch: dundoek, wimpel
Estonian: lipuehted
Finnish: juhlaliputus
French: drapeaux
German: die Flaggen (pl.)
Greek: σημαιάκια για στολισμό σε επετείους
Hungarian: zászló
Icelandic: fáni, fánaskreyting
Indonesian: umbul-umbul
Italian: bandiere*
Japanese: 旗
Korean: (축제용) 기
Latvian: karodziņi (svētku izrotājumiem)
Lithuanian: vėliavos, gatvių papuošalai
Norwegian: flaggpynt
Polish: (rodzaj dekoracji)
Portuguese (Brazil): bandeirola
Portuguese (Portugal): bandeirola
Romanian: steaguri
Russian: флаги
Slovak: vlajkosláva
Slovenian: zastave
Spanish: banderines
Swedish: flaggdekorationer
Turkish: kutlama bayrakları
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Bunting

Bun"ting\, n. [Scot. buntlin, corn-buntlin, OE. bunting, buntyle; of unknown origin.] (Zo["o]l.) A bird of the genus Emberiza, or of an allied genus, related to the finches and sparrows (family Fringillid[ae]).

Note: Among European species are the common or corn bunting (Emberiza miliaria); the ortolan (E. hortulana); the cirl (E. cirlus); and the black-headed (Granitivora melanocephala). American species are the bay-winged or grass (Po["o]c[ae]tes or Po[oe]cetes gramineus); the black-throated (Spiza Americana); the towhee bunting or chewink (Pipilo); the snow bunting (Plectrophanax nivalis); the rice bunting or bobolink, and others. See Ortolan, Chewick, Snow bunting, Lark bunting.
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Bunting

Bun"ting\, Buntine \Bun"tine\, n. [Prov. E. bunting sifting flour, OE. bonten to sift, hence prob. the material used for that purpose.] A thin woolen stuff, used chiefly for flags, colors, and ships' signals.
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