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English : unexplained. Perhaps a respelling of Bunts.Probably an altered spelling of Swiss German Bunz or Bünz, from Alemannic bunz ‘little barrel’, hence a nickname for a short fat man, or of German Banz, or from pet form of an Old High German personal name Bun(n)o, of unexplained etymology.
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English : variant of Bunting.German : from Middle High German bund, the noun from binden ‘to bind’, ‘to tie’; in what sense it became the basis for a name is unclear.
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English : nickname from some fancied resemblance to the songbird (Emberiza spp.).German : patronymic from an unexplained Frisian-Lower Saxon personal name, or a derivative of Bunt- (see Bunten).Sarah Bunting (1686–1762), born in Matlock, Derbyshire, became a noted Quaker minister in Cross Wicks, NJ. It is believed but not certain that other members of her family, including her father, John Bunting, came with her to NJ sometime before 1704, when her marriage to William Murfin is recorded.
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English : habitational name from a place in Derbyshire recorded in Domesday Book as Bunteshale ‘nook or corner of land (Old English halh) of a man called Bunt’.
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German : from Middle High German bunt, a term which originally described black and white coloration, specifically of a fur. Later, by extension, it came to denote the fur itself. It was probably applied as a nickname, but in which sense is no longer clear, and the matter is further complicated by the fact that in some areas bunt meant ‘multicolored’ (its modern meaning is ‘colorful’).English : probably a metonymic occupational name for a maker of sieves, from Middle English bonte, bunte.
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English : variant of Bunting.
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Hindu
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German (Bünte) : most likely a variant of Bünde (see Bunde 2).English : variant spelling of Bunt.
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Australian, Finnish
Bunting; Cricket; Cotyledon
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Arabic, Hindu, Indian, Muslim
Joy; Love
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English : variant of Bunting.
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English : variant of Bunting.
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Probably an Americanized spelling of the Swiss German surname Bunz (see Bunce).English
Probably an Americanized spelling of the Swiss German surname Bunz (see Bunce).English : possibly a variant of Bunt.
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v. i.
To swell out; as, the sail bunts.
v. t. & i.
To strike or push with the horns or head; to butt; as, the ram bunted the boy.
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The reed bunting. It has a collar of white feathers. Called also ring bunting.
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Marked with bright colors; as, the painted turtle; painted bunting.
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A common European finch (Emberiza citrinella). The color of the male is bright yellow on the breast, neck, and sides of the head, with the back yellow and brown, and the top of the head and the tail quills blackish. Called also yellow bunting, scribbling lark, and writing lark.
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A small flag; a pennon. The narrow, / long, pennant (called also whip or coach whip) is a long, narrow piece of bunting, carried at the masthead of a government vessel in commission. The board pennant is an oblong, nearly square flag, carried at the masthead of a commodore's vessel.
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A European singing bird (Emberiza hortulana), about the size of the lark, with black wings. It is esteemed delicious food when fattened. Called also bunting.
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See 1st Bunt.
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One of the ropes toggled to the footrope of a sail, used to haul up to the yard the body of the sail when taking it in.
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A thin woolen stuff, used chiefly for flags, colors, and ships' signals.
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The European bearded titmouse (Panurus biarmicus); -- called also reed bunting, bearded pinnock, and lesser butcher bird.
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The formation situated between the Permian and Lias, and so named by the Germans, because consisting of three series of strata, which are called in German the Bunter sandstein, Muschelkalk, and Keuper.
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One of many species of small singing birds of the family Fringilligae, having conical bills, and feeding chiefly on seeds. Many sparrows are called also finches, and buntings. The common sparrow, or house sparrow, of Europe (Passer domesticus) is noted for its familiarity, its voracity, its attachment to its young, and its fecundity. See House sparrow, under House.
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Alt. of Buntine
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A bird of the genus Emberiza, or of an allied genus, related to the finches and sparrows (family Fringillidae).
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An arctic finch (Plectrophenax, / Plectrophanes, nivalis) common, in winter, both in Europe and the United States, and often appearing in large flocks during snowstorms. It is partially white, but variously marked with chestnut and brown. Called also snow bunting, snowflake, snowfleck, and snowflight.
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One of the bits of leather or colored bunting which are placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. The unmarked fathoms are called "deeps."
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The rice bunting or bobolink; -- so called in the island of Jamaica.