bunting
Strips of material used as festive decoration, especially in the colours of the…Strips of material used as festive decoration, especially in the colours of the national flag.
» Lions greet members of their pride by bunting.
Meaning
8 senses(countable, uncountable)Strips of material used as festive decoration, especially in the colours of the national flag.
Verzierung aus Flaggen- und Wimpelketten, Fahnen- und Bannerdekoration
(countable, uncountable)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.
Flaggentuch
флагду́кflagdúk
(countable, uncountable)Flags considered as a group.
Any of various songbirds of the genus Emberiza, having short bills and brown or gray plumage.
Ammer
овся́нкаovsjánka
вівся́нкаvivsjánka
A warm, often hooded infant garment, as outerwear or sleepwear, similar to a sleeper or sleepsack; especially as baby bunting or bunting bag.
(countable, uncountable)A pushing action.
(countable, uncountable)A strong timber; a stout prop.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)An old boys' game, played with sticks and a small piece of wood.
- any of numerous seed-eating songbirds of Europe or North America
- a loosely woven fabric used for flags, etc.
Examples
2 sentencesLions greet members of their pride by bunting.
I had never seen an indigo bunting until I moved here.
Translations
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Origin
Possibly from dialect bunting (“sifting flour”), from Middle English bonten (“to sift”), hPossibly from dialect bunting (“sifting flour”), from Middle English bonten (“to sift”), hence the material used for that purpose.
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.
1922, apparently from Scots buntin (“plump, short and thick (esp. of children)”), itself an old term of endearment for children (1660s); the sense “plump” dates to the 1500s, and may be related to bunt (“belly of a sail”). Possibly related to butt (“(both noun and verb sense: buttocks; strike with head)”) or to bunny (“rabbit”). Compare with the nursery rhyme Bye, baby Bunting (1731), either of same origin or influenced this sense.
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Forms
plural: buntingsWord family
22 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable