bunting

See also: Bunting

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʌntɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ʌntɪŋ

Etymology 1

Bunting on display for day 3 of the 2012 Olympic torch relay, in Devon, UK

Possibly from dialect bunting (“sifting flour”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English bonten (“to sift”), hence the material used for that purpose. Possibly from Germanic bundt (“to bind or tie together”).

Noun

bunting (countable and uncountable, plural buntings)

1. Strips of material used as festive decoration, especially in the colours of the national flag.
2. (nautical) A thin cloth of woven wool from which flags are made; it is light enough to spread in a gentle wind but resistant to fraying in a strong wind.
3. Flags considered as a group.

Translations

strips of material hung as decoration

• German: Verzierung aus Flaggen- und Wimpelketten f, Fahnen- und Bannerdekoration f
• Italian: festone (it) m
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• Malay: gegantung

material from which flags are made

• Bulgarian: плат за знамена (plat za znamena)
• Finnish: lippukangas
• German: Flaggentuch n
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• Icelandic: flaggdúkur m
• Russian: флагду́к (ru) m (flagdúk)

flags as a group

• Italian: bandierine f pl
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Etymology 2

A black-headed bunting ()

Wikispecies

From Middle English bunting, bountyng, buntynge (also as Middle English buntyle), of uncertain origin. Possibly a reference to speckled plumage, from an unrecorded Middle English *bunt (“spotted, speckled, pied”) akin to Dutch bont, Middle Low German bunt, bont, German bunt (“multi-coloured”) +‎ -ing (diminutive suffix).

Noun

bunting (plural buntings)

1. Any of various songbirds, mostly of the genus Emberiza, having short bills and brown or gray plumage.

Derived terms

• black-headed bunting ()
• corn bunting ()
• indigo bunting ()
• painted bunting ( or )
• reed bunting ()
• snow bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis)

Translations

bird

• Bulgarian: жълта овесарка (žǎlta ovesarka)
• Finnish: sirkku (fi)
• French: bruant (fr) m
• German: Ammer (de) f
• Hebrew: גבתון (he) m (gibtón)
• Hungarian: sármány (hu)
• Icelandic: tittlingur (is) m
• Irish: gealóg f
• Italian: zigolo (it) m
• Latvian: stērste f
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• Lithuanian: starta (lt) f
• Portuguese: emberiza f
• Romanian: presură (ro) f
• Russian: овся́нка (ru) f (ovsjánka)
• Scottish Gaelic: gealag f
• Spanish: escribano m
• Ukrainian: вівся́нка f (vivsjánka)
• Volapük: berit (vo)
• Welsh: bras (cy) m

Etymology 3

Verb

bunting

1. present participle of bunt

Noun

bunting (countable and uncountable, plural buntings)

1. A pushing action.
2. A strong timber; a stout prop.
3. (obsolete) An old boys' game, played with sticks and a small piece of wood.