Bint vs Bunt - What's the difference?
bint | bunt |
(British, pejorative) A woman, a girl.
* Monty Python's Flying Circus
The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
(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.
(baseball, softball) The act of bunting
(aviation) The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight.
A fungus (Ustilago foetida ) affecting the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a foetid dust; pepperbrand.
(baseball) to intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance
(baseball) to intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance
(aviation) to perform (the second half of) an outside loop.
(nautical) To swell out.
(rare, of a cat) To headbutt affectionately.
As nouns the difference between bint and bunt
is that bint is (british|pejorative) a woman, a girl while bunt is the middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.As a verb bunt is
(baseball) to intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance.bint
English
Noun
(en noun)- Tell that bint to get herself in here now!
- Don't you remember the Crimbo din-din we had with the grotty Scots bint ?
- If I went round saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
Synonyms
* See also ----bunt
English
Noun
(en noun)- The bunt of the sail was green.
- The bunt was fielded cleanly.
- The manager will likely call for a bunt here.
See also
* ("bunt" on Wikipedia)Verb
(en verb)- Jones bunted the ball.
- Jones bunted .
- 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.
- The sail bunts .
