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bunch

noun
/bʌntʃ/UK/bʌnt͡ʃ/US

Etymology

From Middle English bunche, bonche (“hump, swelling”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant of *bunge (compare dialectal bung (“heap, grape bunch”)), from Proto-Germanic *bunkō, *bunkô, *bungǭ (“heap, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ-, *bʰénǵʰus (“thick, dense, fat”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian Bunke (“bone”), West Frisian bonke (“bone, lump, bump”), Dutch bonk (“lump, bone”), Low German Bunk (“bone”), German Bunge (“tuber”), Danish bunke (“heap, pile”), Faroese bunki (“heap, pile”); Hittite [Term?] (/⁠panku⁠/, “total, entire”), Tocharian B pkante (“volume, fatness”), Lithuanian búožė (“knob”), Ancient Greek παχύς (pakhús, “thick”), Sanskrit बहु (bahú, “thick; much”)). Alternatively, perhaps from a variant or diminutive of bump (compare hump/hunch, lump/lunch, etc.); or from dialectal Old French bonge (“bundle”) (compare French bongeau, bonjeau, bonjot), from West Flemish bondje, diminutive of West Flemish bond (“bundle”).

  1. derived from bond
  2. derived from bondje
  3. derived from bonge
  4. derived from *bʰenǵʰ-✻
  5. inherited from *bunkō✻
  6. inherited from bunche

Definitions

  1. A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually…

    A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.

    • a bunch of grapes
    • a bunch of bananas
    • a bunch of keys

  2. The peloton

    The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.

  3. An informal body of friends.

    • He still hangs out with the same bunch.
  4. ›+ 15 more definitions

    1. A considerable amount.

      • a bunch of trouble

    2. An unmentioned amount

      An unmentioned amount; a number.

      • A bunch of them went down to the field.

    3. A group of logs tied together for skidding.

    4. An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch…

      An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.

      • The ore may be disseminated throughout the matrix in minute particles, as gold in quartz; in parallel threads, strings, and plates, as with copper; in irregular pockets or bunches

    5. The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of…

      The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle.

    6. An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.

      • Two to four filler leaves are laid end to end and rolled into the two halves of the binder leaves, making up what is called the bunch.

    7. A protuberance

      A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.

      • They will carry[…]their treasures upon the bunches of camels.

    8. A seventeenth-century unit of Rhenish glass, 60 of which constitute a way or web.

    9. To gather into a bunch.

    10. To gather fabric into folds.

    11. To form a bunch.

    12. To be gathered together in folds

    13. To protrude or swell

    14. A surname.

    15. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Adair County, Oklahoma, United…

      An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Adair County, Oklahoma, United States, named after Cherokee Rabbit Bunch.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA