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tɪŋ 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, especially a vessel's flags, collectively.
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noun
any of several small, chiefly seed-eating birds of the genera Emberiza, Passerina, and Plectrophenax.
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| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
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.
a.
the act of bunting.
b.
a bunted ball.
Origin:
1760–70; orig. British dial. (Central and S England): push, strike; of obscure origin
1760–70; orig. British dial. (Central and S England): push, strike; of obscure origin
Related forms
bunt·er, noun
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bunt1 (bʌnt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | (of an animal) to butt (something) with the head or horns |
| 2. | to cause (an aircraft) to fly in part of an inverted loop or (of an aircraft) to fly in such a loop |
| 3. | (US), (Canadian) (in baseball) to hit (a pitched ball) very gently |
| —n | |
| 4. | the act or an instance of bunting |
| [C19: perhaps nasalized variant of | |
| bunt2 (bʌnt) | |
| —n | |
| nautical the baggy centre of a fishing net or other piece of fabric, such as a square sail | |
| [C16: perhaps from Middle Low German bunt | |
| bunt3 (bʌnt) | |
| —n | |
| a disease of cereal plants caused by smut fungi (genus Tilletia) | |
| [C17: of unknown origin] | |
| bunting1 (ˈbʌntɪŋ) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a coarse, loosely woven cotton fabric used for flags, etc |
| 2. | decorative flags, pennants, and streamers |
| 3. | flags collectively, esp those of a boat |
| [C18: of unknown origin] | |
| bunting2 (ˈbʌntɪŋ) | |
| —n | |
| any of numerous seed-eating songbirds of the families Fringillidae (finches, etc) or Emberizidae, esp those of the genera Emberiza of the Old World and Passerina of North America. They all have short stout bills | |
| [C13: of unknown origin] | |
| Bunting (ˈbʌntɪŋ) | |
| —n | |
| Basil. 1900--85, British poet, author of Briggflatts (1966) | |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
bunt
1825, "to strike with the head or horns," perhaps an alteration of butt (as a goat), or from M.E. bounten "to return." Baseball term is from 1889, noun and verb.
bunting
"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
type of lark-like bird, c.1300, bountyng, of unknown origin. Perhaps 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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Example sentences
Annual survival in the southeastern coastal breeding population of the painted bunting.
There is danger of a flag and bunting famine among the dealers in these commodities in this city.
Flags and bunting hung from the back of a shiny blue train car.
There was a dais at one end of the yard, decorated with tricolor bunting and set with many chairs.
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