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bunch
English
Etymology
From Middle English bunche, bonche (“hump, swelling”), of uncertain origin.
Perhaps a variant of *bunge (compare dialectal bung (“heap, grape bunch”)), from Proto-Germanic *bunk?, *bunkô, *bung? (“heap, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?en??-, *b?éng??us (“thick, dense, fat”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian Bunke (“bone”), West Frisian bonke (“bone, lump, bump”), Dutch bonk (“lump, bone”), Low German Bunk (“bone”), German Bunge (“tuber”), Danish bunke (“heap, pile”), Faroese bunki (“heap, pile”); Hittite [Term?] (/panku/, “total, entire”), Tocharian B pkante (“volume, fatness”), Lithuanian búož? (“knob”), Ancient Greek ????? (pakhús, “thick”), Sanskrit ??? (bahú, “thick; much”)).
Alternatively, perhaps from a variant or diminutive of bump (compare hump/hunch, lump/lunch, etc.); or from dialectal Old French bonge (“bundle”) (compare French bongeau, bonjeau, bonjot), from West Flemish bondje, diminutive of West Flemish bond (“bundle”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?nt?/
- Rhymes: -?nt?
Noun
bunch (plural bunches)
- A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
- (cycling) The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
- An informal body of friends.
- “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, […], the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"
- (US, informal) A considerable amount.
- (informal) An unmentioned amount; a number.
- (forestry) A group of logs tied together for skidding.
- (geology, mining) An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
- 1874, David Page, Economic Geology: Or, Geology in Its Relations to the Arts and Manufactures
- The ore may be disseminated throughout the matrix in minute particles, as gold in quartz; in parallel threads, strings, and plates, as with copper; in irregular pockets or bunches
- 1874, David Page, Economic Geology: Or, Geology in Its Relations to the Arts and Manufactures
- (textiles) The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle.
- An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.
- A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
Synonyms
- (group of similar things): cluster, group
- (informal body of friends): pack, group, gang, circle
- (unusual concentration of ore): ore pocket, pocket, pocket of ore, kidney, nest, nest of ore, ore bunch, bunch of ore
Derived terms
- buncha (bunch of)
Translations
Verb
bunch (third-person singular simple present bunches, present participle bunching, simple past and past participle bunched)
- (transitive) To gather into a bunch.
- (transitive) To gather fabric into folds.
- (intransitive) To form a bunch.
- (intransitive) To be gathered together in folds
- (intransitive) To protrude or swell
- 1728, John Woodward, An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England
- Bunching out into a large round knob at one end.
- 1728, John Woodward, An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England
Synonyms
- (form a bunch): cluster, group
Derived terms
- bunch up
Translations
bunch From the web:
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- what bunch of grapes
- what bunch of abalone
- what's bunches on yolo
- what bunch of crooks
- what bunch of flowers
- what bunch grass
- what bunch of bananas
clutter
English
Etymology
From Middle English cloteren (“to form clots; coagulate; heap on”), from clot (“clot”), equivalent to clot +? -er (frequentative suffix). Compare Welsh cludair (“heap, pile”), cludeirio (“to heap”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?kl?t?(?)/
- (US) IPA(key): /?kl?t?/, [?kl???]
- Rhymes: -?t?(r)
Noun
clutter (countable and uncountable, plural clutters)
- (uncountable) A confused disordered jumble of things.
- (uncountable) Background echoes, from clouds etc., on a radar or sonar screen.
- (countable) A group of cats; the collective noun for cats.
- 2008, John Robert Colombo, The Big Book of Canadian Ghost Stories, Introduction
- Organizing ghost stories is like herding a clutter of cats: the phenomenon resists organization and classification.
- 2008, John Robert Colombo, The Big Book of Canadian Ghost Stories, Introduction
- (obsolete) Clatter; confused noise.
- October 14 1718, John Arbuthnot, letter to Jonathan Swift
- I hardly heard a word of news or politicks, except a little clutter about sending some impertinent presidents du parliament to prison
- 1835, William Cobbett, John Morgan Cobbett, James Paul Cobbett, Selections from Cobbett's political works (volume 1, page 33)
- It was then you might have heard a clutter: pots, pans and pitchers, mugs, jugs and jordens, all put themselves in motion at once […]
- October 14 1718, John Arbuthnot, letter to Jonathan Swift
Derived terms
- surface clutter
- volume clutter
Translations
Verb
clutter (third-person singular simple present clutters, present participle cluttering, simple past and past participle cluttered)
- To fill something with clutter.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To clot or coagulate, like blood.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Holland to this entry?)
- To make a confused noise; to bustle.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Goose
- It [the goose] cluttered here, it chuckled there.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Goose
- To utter words hurriedly, especially (but not exclusively) as a speech disorder (compare cluttering).
Translations
clutter From the web:
- what clutterbug are you
- what clutter means
- what clutter does to your brain
- what clutter says about you
- what clutter is trying to tell you
- what clutter does to you
- what clutter means in spanish
- what clutter means in tagalog
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