Dunch vs Bunch - What's the difference?
dunch | bunch |
(Geordie) To knock against; to hit, punch
(Geordie) To crash into, to bump into.
(British) To jog, especially with the elbow.
(golf) A fat hit from a claggy lie.
A small meal between lunch and dinner in the late afternoon or early evening (about 3-5 p.m.), usually including tea or coffee with cookies, sometimes fruits, a salad or a light sandwich.
:* "For tomorrow, I have already scheduled lunch and dinner with my colleagues. Let's have a dunch together."
A group of a number of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
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, title= (lb) The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
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 dunch
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.dunch
English
Etymology 1
Origin unknown.Alternative forms
* dunsh (Geordie)Verb
Noun
(-)References
* * * * *Golfing dictionary, accessed on 2005-06-01
Etymology 2
A blend of (lunch) and (dinner) (probably in imitation of (brunch)).Noun
(-)See also
* food ----bunch
English
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.