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bun⋅ting
1
[buhn-ting] 
–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. |
bun⋅ting
2 [buhn-ting] –noun
| any of several small, chiefly seed-eating birds of the genera Emberiza, Passerina, and Plectrophenax. |
bunt
1 [buhnt] –verb (used with object)
| 1. | (of a goat or calf) to push with the horns or head; butt. |
| 2. | Baseball. to bat (a pitched ball) very gently so that it rolls into the infield close to home plate, usually by holding the bat loosely in hands spread apart and allowing the ball to bounce off it. |
–verb (used without object)
| 3. | to push (something) with the horns or head. |
| 4. | Baseball. to bunt a ball. |
–noun
| 5. | a push with the head or horns; butt. |
| 6. | Baseball.
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Origin:
1760–70; orig. Brit. dial. (Central and S England): push, strike; of obscure orig.
1760–70; orig. Brit. dial. (Central and S England): push, strike; of obscure orig.
Related forms:
bunter, noun
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| bunt 1 (bŭnt) v. bunt·ed, bunt·ing, bunts v. tr.
[Dialectal, to push, strike.] bunt'er n. |
| bunt·ing 1 (bŭn'tĭng) n.
[Perhaps from German bunt, colored.] |
| bunt·ing 2 (bŭn'tĭng) n. Any of various birds of the family Fringillidae, having short, cone-shaped bills and brownish or grayish plumage. [Middle English.] |
| bunt·ing 3 (bŭn'tĭng) n. A snug-fitting, hooded sleeping bag of heavy material for infants. [Perhaps from Scots buntin, plump, short.] |
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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.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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Language Translation for : bunting
Spanish:
banderines,
German:
die Flaggen (pl.),
Japanese:
旗
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."
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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Patriotic bunting
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