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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.
noun
a hooded sleeping garment for infants.
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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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.
EXPANDbunting
"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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