Butler vs Bunch - What's the difference?
butler | bunch |
A manservant having charge of wines and liquors.
The chief male servant of a household who has charge of other employees, receives guests, directs the serving of meals, and performs various personal services.
* 1929 , Baldwyn Dyke Acland, Filibuster , Chapter 2
*:“One marble hall, with staircase complete, one butler' and three to one flunkey, gloves to another, and there was the fourth poor blighter looking like an orphan at a Mothers' Meeting. …"
A valet, a male personal attendant.
A group of a number of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
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An informal body of friends.
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*:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch —the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers,, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"
(lb) A considerable amount.
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(lb) An unmentioned amount; a number.
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(lb) A group of logs tied together for skidding.
An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
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(lb) The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle.
An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.
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A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
*(Bible), (w) xxx. 6
*:They will carrytheir treasures upon the bunches of camels.
To gather into a bunch.
To gather fabric into folds.
To form a bunch.
To be gathered together in folds
To protrude or swell
* Woodward
As a proper noun butler
is .As a noun bunch is
a group of a number of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.As a verb bunch is
to gather into a bunch.butler
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Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* buttle (backformation)References
bunch
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Noun
(es)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
Synonyms
* (group of similar things) cluster, group * (informal body of friends) pack, group, gang, circle * (unusual concentration of ore) ore pocket, pocket, pocket of ore, kidney, nest, nest of ore, ore bunch, bunch of oreDerived terms
* buncha (bunch of)Verb
(es)- Bunching out into a large round knob at one end.