English

Noun

bunt ‎(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.
6. A fungus (Ustilago foetida) affecting the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a foetid dust; pepperbrand.

Coordinate terms

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

Translations

See also

• bunt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

bunt ‎(third-person singular simple present bunts, present participle bunting, simple past and past participle bunted)

1. (transitive, baseball) to intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance

   Jones bunted the ball.

2. (intransitive, baseball) to intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance

   Jones bunted.

3. (intransitive, aviation) to perform (the second half of) an outside loop.

   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.

4. (intransitive, nautical) To swell out.

   The sail bunts.

5. (rare, of a cat) To headbutt affectionately.

Translations

German

Etymology

From Middle High German bunt, probably from Latin punctus. 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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʊnt/
• Homophone: Bund

Adjective

bunt ‎(comparative bunter, superlative am buntesten)

1. multi-colored; colorful; variegated

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʉnt/

Noun

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

1. bundle

References

• “bunt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From German Bund.

Pronunciation

Noun

bunt m inan

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

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From German Bund ‎(“federation; conspiracy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bǔnt/

Noun

bùnt m ‎(Cyrillic spelling бу̀нт)

1. (colloquial) revolt, rebellion

Declension

Etymology 2

From German Bund ‎(“alliance; waistband”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bûnt/

Noun

bȕnt m ‎(Cyrillic spelling бу̏нт)

1. (regional) bundle

Declension

Synonyms

• bȕnd

References

• “bunt” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• “bunt” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Welsh

Noun

bunt

1. Soft mutation of punt.

Wolof

Pronunciation

Noun

1. door