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bunt^¹

/bʌnt/
/bʊnt/ Northern England

Rhymes with -ʌnt

Where it comes from

Unknown. Perhaps a nasalised variant of butt.

noun bunts

countable, uncountable 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.
countable, uncountable A push or shove; a butt.
countable, uncountable 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.
countable, uncountable The act of bunting. The manager will likely call for a bunt here.
countable, uncountable The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight.
broadly, countable, uncountable Any large pilot-commanded pitch-down motion of an aircraft, often producing negative G-forces and resulting in a large negative change in flightpath angle.
countable, uncountable A fungus (Ustilago foetida) affecting the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a foetid dust.
Similar: pepperbrand

verb bunts · bunting · bunted

To push with the horns; to butt.
To spring or rear up.
transitive To intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance. Jones bunted the ball.
intransitive To intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance. Jones bunted.
intransitive 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 hori
intransitive To swell out. The sail bunts.
rare, of a cat To headbutt affectionately. For quotations using this term, see Citations:bunt.

Bunt^²

proper noun Bunts

A surname.

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noun baseball: ball intentionally hit softly

Español	toque
한국어	번트 beonteu
日本語	バント banto
Français	amorti

verb baseball

Español	toque
한국어	번트하다 beonteuhada
Italiano	smorzare

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@misc{bunt_2026,
  title = {bunt},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bunt},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}