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Bunting vs Bunning - What's the difference?

bunting | bunning |

As nouns the difference between bunting and bunning

is that bunting is strips of material used as festive decoration, especially in the colours of the national flag while bunning is echidna.

As a verb bunting

is present participle of lang=en.

bunting

English

(wikipedia bunting)

Etymology 1

Possibly from dialect , hence the material used for that purpose.

Noun

(en noun)
  • Strips of material used as festive decoration, especially in the colours of the national flag.
  • (nautical) A thin cloth of woven wool from which flags are made; it is light enough to spread in a gentle wind but resistant to fraying in a strong wind.
  • Flags considered as a group.

    • Etymology 2

    (Emberiza)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of various songbirds, mostly of the genus Emberiza , having short bills and brown or gray plumage.
    • Derived terms
    * * corn bunting * indigo bunting * painted bunting * reed bunting * snow bunting

    Etymology 3

    See bunt

    Verb

    (head)

    • 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