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Bunn vs Bunt - What's the difference?

bunn | bunt |

As nouns the difference between bunn and bunt

is that bunn is (sweetened bread roll) 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.

bunn

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (sweetened bread roll)
  • * 1816 , Joshua E. White, Letters on England
    • Such is the general hurry and confusion in the principal streets, such as Castle Street, Lord Street, Pool Lane, Paradise Street, &c. that often passengers take up a bunn , a cake, or some fruit, as they pass the shop of a confectioner or fruit-seller, without stopping, and throw in the pay without inquiring the price.
  • * 1856 , Lucius Manlius Sargent, Dealings with the Dead (volume 2, page 472)
    • "Oh," she replied, "when I came to think of it, I saw, that you were right. I thought, 'twas quite likely it would draw a blank. Crust, the baker, offered me what I gave for it, and a sheet of bunns , to boot, and I let him have it, three weeks ago.
    ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (Nynorsk also )

    Noun

    (nb-noun-m1)
  • bottom (lowermost part )

    • Derived terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l)

    References

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    bunt

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • (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.
    • The bunt was fielded cleanly.
  • (baseball, softball) The act of bunting
    • The manager will likely call for a bunt here.
  • (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.

    • See also

    * ("bunt" on Wikipedia)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (baseball) to intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance
    • Jones bunted the ball.
  • (baseball) to intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance
    • Jones bunted .
  • (aviation) 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 horizontal inverted flight, and came out on the other side and rolled it out.
  • (nautical) To swell out.
    • The sail bunts .
  • (rare, of a cat) To headbutt affectionately.