bunt

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English

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps a nasalised variant of butt.

Pronunciation

Noun

bunt (plural bunts)

  1. (nautical) The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
    The bunt of the sail was green.
  2. A push or shove; a butt.
  3. (baseball, softball) A ball that has been intentionally hit softly so as to be difficult to field, sometimes with a hands-spread batting stance or with a close-hand, choked-up hand position. No swinging action is involved.
    The bunt was fielded cleanly.
  4. (baseball, softball) The act of bunting.
    The manager will likely call for a bunt here.
  5. (aviation) The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight.
  6. A fungus (Ustilago foetida) affecting the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a foetid dust; pepperbrand.

Coordinate terms

Translations

Verb

bunt (third-person singular simple present bunts, present participle bunting, simple past and past participle bunted)

  1. To push with the horns; to butt.
  2. To spring or rear up.
  3. (transitive, baseball) To intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
    Jones bunted the ball.
  4. (intransitive, baseball) To intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
    Jones bunted.
  5. (intransitive, aviation) To perform (the second half of) an outside loop.
    We had heard that there was an elite group of three or four pilots in Jodhpur called the "Bunt Club", who had successfully bunted their aircraft - that is, carried out the second half of an outside loop. In the Bunt, you pushed the nose down, past the vertical and still further, until you were in horizontal inverted flight, and came out on the other side and rolled it out.
  6. (intransitive, nautical) To swell out.
    The sail bunts.
  7. (rare, of a cat) To headbutt affectionately.

Translations

See also

German

Etymology

From Middle High German bunt, probably from Latin punctus, whence English point. Dutch bont seems to have somewhat earlier attestations in the relevant sense, but the phonetic form (b- for p- and Dutch -o- for -u-) could hint at Middle High German origin. It is therefore unsettled which of the two borrowed from which.

Pronunciation

Adjective

bunt (comparative bunter, superlative am buntesten)

  1. mixed, varied, heterogeneous
  2. multi-colored; colorful; variegated

Declension

Template:de-decl-adj

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “bunt” in Duden online

Norwegian Bokmål

FWOTD – 21 January 2019

Etymology

From Middle Low German bunt.

Pronunciation

Noun

bunt m (definite singular bunten, indefinite plural bunter, definite plural buntene)

  1. bundle, bunch
    • 2016, Død i kort kjole: Braze Blade 2 by Arnfinn Forness, Chayka Förlag →ISBN [1]
      Mellom rammen og madrassen var det et hulrom hvor en skoeske kom til syne. Da Lex forsøkte å dra den ut, gikk den i stykker, og bunter med pengesedler ramlet på gulvet - sammen med en forniklet revolver kaliber .38 og en lyddemper.
      Between the frame and the mattress there was a cavity where a shoebox came into view. When Lex tried to pull it out it fell to pieces, and bundles of banknotes fell on the floor - together with a nickel-plated .38 calibre revolver and a silencer.

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German bunt

Noun

bunt m (definite singular bunten, indefinite plural buntar, definite plural buntane)

  1. bundle, bunch

References

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Bund (originally any union, the "mutiny" sense since 17th century).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bunt/
  • Audio(file)

Noun

bunt m inan

  1. mutiny, revolt
  2. rebellion (the attitude of rejecting authority)

Declension

Declension of bunt
singular plural
nominative bunt bunty
genitive buntu buntów
dative buntowi buntom
accusative bunt bunty
instrumental buntem buntami
locative buncie buntach
vocative buncie bunty

References

  1. ^ Template:R:BruckerEtym

External links

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Bund (“federation; conspiracy”).

Pronunciation

Noun

bùnt m (Cyrillic spelling бу̀нт)

  1. (colloquial) revolt, rebellion
Declension
Declension of bunt
singular plural
nominative bunt buntovi
genitive bunta buntova
dative buntu buntovima
accusative bunt buntove
vocative bunte buntovi
locative buntu buntovima
instrumental buntom buntovima

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Bund (“alliance; waistband”).

Pronunciation

Noun

bȕnt m (Cyrillic spelling бу̏нт)

  1. (regional) bundle
Declension
Declension of bunt
singular plural
nominative bȕnt bùntovi
genitive bunta buntova
dative buntu buntovima
accusative bunt buntove
vocative bunte buntovi
locative buntu buntovima
instrumental buntom buntovima
Synonyms

References

  • “bunt” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • “bunt” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Swedish

Etymology

From Middle Low German bunt.

Pronunciation

Noun

bunt c

  1. bundle, bunch

Declension

Declension of bunt 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative bunt bunten buntar buntarna
Genitive bunts buntens buntars buntarnas

References

Welsh

Noun

bunt

  1. Soft mutation of punt.

Wolof

Pronunciation

Noun

bunt

  1. door
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