different between wedgie vs bunching

English

Etymology

From wedge +? -ie.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?w?d?.i/
• Rhymes: -?d?i

Noun

wedgie (plural wedgies)

1. (colloquial) A wedge-heeled shoe.
2. (slang) A prank in which a person's underpants are pulled up sharply from behind in order to wedge the clothing uncomfortably between the person's buttocks.
3. (slang) A situation where a person's underpants are stuck uncomfortably between their buttocks.
4. (basketball, slang) a basketball stuck between the rim and the backboard following a field goal, free throw, rebound, or block attempt.
5. (informal, birdwatching) wedge-tailed eagle
   • 2003, Susannah Farfor, David Andrew, Hugh Finlay, Northern Territory (page 27)

     The white-bellied sea eagle is almost as big as a wedgie and handsomely marked in grey and white.

Synonyms

• (prank): snuggie

Derived terms

• atomic wedgie

Translations

See also

• melvin

Verb

wedgie (third-person singular simple present wedgies, present participle wedgying, simple past and past participle wedgied)

1. (slang) To play the wedgie prank on.
   • 1989, Michael Moffatt, Coming of Age in New Jersey (page 86)

     Last year's juniors had wedgied last year's freshmen, and then each freshman victim had happily joined the patrol, its aficionados claimed.

English

Verb

bunching

1. present participle of bunch

Noun

bunching (countable and uncountable, plural bunchings)

1. (countable) An arrangement of items in a bunch.
   • 1974, Isabella Bird, Six Months in the Sandwich Islands, amongst the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs and Volcanoes

     The foreign ladies, in their simple, tasteful, fresh attire, innocent of the humpings and bunchings, the monstrosities and deformities of ultra-fashionable bad taste, beamed with cheerfulness, friendliness, and kindliness.

2. (uncountable) The illegitimate supplying of laboratory animals that are actually kidnapped pets or illegally trapped strays.

Related terms

• buncher