bunt

Unknown. Perhaps a nasalised variant of butt.

• IPA^(key): /bʌnt/
• Rhymes: -ʌnt

• Audio (Southern England):

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bunt (countable and uncountable, 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.
   1. (by extension) Any large pilot-commanded pitch-down motion of an aircraft, often producing negative G-forces and resulting in a large negative change in flightpath angle.
6. (countable, uncountable) A fungus (Ustilago foetida) affecting the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a foetid dust.

   Synonym: (obsolete) pepperbrand

• (specific part of a sail): clew
• (baseball, softball): sacrifice bunt, slash bunt, swinging bunt, squeeze, safety squeeze, suicide squeeze

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.
   • [1]:

     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.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:bunt.

• bunting

• bunt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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.

• IPA^(key): /bʊnt/
• Rhymes: -ʊnt
• Homophone: Bund

bunt (strong nominative masculine singular bunter, comparative bunter, superlative am buntesten)

1. (obsolete) spotted, speckled
2. multi-colored; colorful; variegated

   Synonym: vielfarbig

3. (by extension) mixed, varied, heterogeneous

   ein bunter Haufen ― a motley crew

• kunterbunt
• quietschbunt
• zu bunt

• “bunt” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “bunt” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “bunt” in Duden online

From Middle Low German bunt.

• IPA^(key): /bʉnt/

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

1. bundle, bunch
   • 2016, Arnfinn Forness, Død i kort kjole: Braze Blade 2‎^[2], Chayka Förlag, →ISBN:

     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.

• “bunt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “bunt” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From Middle Low German bunt.

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

1. bundle, bunch

• “bunt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Latin punctus (“dotted, speckled”), similar to German Punkt (“dot”).

bunt

1. motley, variegated, multicolored
2. colorful
3. gaudy

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbunt/

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• Rhymes: -unt
• Syllabification: bunt
• Homophone: Bunt

bunt m inan (diminutive buncik)

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

   Synonyms: opór, protest, sprzeciw, rewolta, rebelia, powstanie, rozruchy, insurekcja

• → Russian: бунт (bunt)

• bunt in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• bunt in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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

• IPA^(key): /bǔnt/

bùnt m inan (Cyrillic spelling бу̀нт)

1. (colloquial) revolt, rebellion

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

• IPA^(key): /bûnt/

bȕnt m inan (Cyrillic spelling бу̏нт)

1. (regional) bundle

   Synonym: bȕnd

• “bunt”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
• “bunt”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

From Middle Low German bunt, from Old Saxon *bund, from Proto-Germanic *bundą.

• IPA^(key): /bɵnt/

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bunt c

1. a bundle, a bunch (often of broad and flat or long and narrow objects, for example a stack of paper)

• bunta

• bunt in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• bunt in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /bɨ̞nt/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /bɪnt/

bunt

1. soft mutation of punt

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bunt

1. door