bunt

Noun

1. (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.
2. (countable, uncountable) A push or shove; a butt.
3. (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.
4. (countable, uncountable) The act of bunting.
5. (countable, uncountable) The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight.
6. (broadly, countable, uncountable) The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight.
7. (countable, uncountable) A fungus (Ustilago foetida) affecting the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a foetid dust.

Verb

1. To push with the horns; to butt.
2. To spring or rear up.
3. (transitive) To intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
4. (intransitive) To intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
5. (intransitive) To perform (the second half of) an outside loop.
6. (intransitive) To swell out.
7. (rare) To headbutt affectionately.

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps a nasalised variant of butt.

Synonyms

butt

stinking smut

drag a bunt

headbutt

push

ram

🐏

Tilletia caries

Tilletia foetida

jar

🫙

knock

plunker

blight

bump around

shove

snick

strike

tap

sacrifice fly

bump

caries

flick

buffet

hit

Translations

carie

στήθος ιστίου

toc

tossar

Karies

Bunt

leichter Schlag

geopferter Schlag

Sacrifice

Sacrifice Hit

amorti

fond

🔙

cozzare

stoot

tocar