different between garland vs bunting

English

Etymology

From Middle English garland, garlaunde, gerland, from Old French garlande, garlaunde, gerlande, guerlande (compare French guirlande), from Frankish *wierl?n, *wieral?n, a frequentative form of Frankish *wier?n (“to adorn, bedeck”), from *wiera (“a gold thread”), akin to Old High German wieren (“to adorn”), Old High German wiara (“gold thread”). More at wire.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /????l?nd/

Noun

garland (plural garlands)

1. A wreath, especially one of plaited flowers or leaves, worn on the body or draped as a decoration.

   • Bestow a Garland only on a Bier

2. An accolade or mark of honour.
3. (mining) A metal gutter placed round a mineshaft on the inside, to catch water running down inside the shaft and run it into a drainpipe.
4. The crown of a monarch.
   • 1569, Richard Grafton, A Chronicle at Large

     [she] joyfully receyued and welcommed mee, as the onely type and garland of her noble stirpe and linage

5. (dated) A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology.
   • 1765, Thomas Percy, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry

     They [ballads] began to be collected into little miscellanies under the name of garlands.

6. The top; the thing most prized.
7. (nautical) A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provisions in.
8. (nautical) A grommet or ring of rope lashed to a spar for convenience in handling.

Translations

See also

• chaplet

Verb

garland (third-person singular simple present garlands, present participle garlanding, simple past and past participle garlanded)

1. (transitive) To deck or ornament something with a garland
2. (transitive) To form something into a garland

Anagrams

• Ragland

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?b?nt??/
• Rhymes: -?nt??

Etymology 1

Possibly from dialect bunting (“sifting flour”), from 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

Etymology 2

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.

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 (Emberiza melanocephala)
• corn bunting (Emberiza calandra)
• indigo bunting (Passerina cyanea)
• painted bunting (Passerina ciris or Calcarius pictus)
• pine bunting (Emberiza melanocephala
• reed bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus)
• rock bunting (Emberiza cia)
• snow bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis)

Translations

Etymology 3

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.

Noun

bunting (plural buntings)

1. A warm, hooded infant garment, as outerwear or sleepwear, similar to a sleeper or sleepsack; especially as baby bunting or bunting bag.

Etymology 4

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.

References

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay bunting, from Classical Malay bunting.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?n.t??/
• Rhymes: -?nt??, -t??, -??

Verb

bunting

1. (derogatory) to be pregnant, to get pregnant

Synonyms

• hamil, mengandung