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Bunning vs Burning - What's the difference?

bunning | burning |

As nouns the difference between bunning and burning

is that bunning is (australian) echidna while burning is the act by which something burns or is burned.

As a verb burning is

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As an adjective burning is

so hot as to seem to burn (something).

bunning

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Australian) echidna
  • * 1988, R. Langford, Don’t Take Your Love to Town
    • Old folk hunted for bandicoot and bunning in this grass.
    Australian Aboriginal English

    burning

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • So hot as to seem to burn (something).
  • *{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
    • , chapter=5, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.}}
  • Feeling very hot.
  • Feeling great passion.
  • Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful.
  • * (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
    • Like a young hound upon a burning scent.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something burns or is burned.
  • * 1828 , Timothy Flint, The Western Monthly Review (volume 1, page 403)
    • It gives a fine delineation of the burnings of shame, disappointed ambition, and vengeance
  • * 1850 , The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal (volume 91, page 93)
    • The propriety of the dissolution, too, was speedily seen in the improved state of the public peace: for twelve years we hear little of Orange riots, and nothing of such burnings and wreckings as those of Maghera, Maghery, and Annahagh.
  • A fire.
    • The burnings continued all day.