English English Dictionary

English English Dictionary

The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg

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Bumpkin (n.)

An awkward, heavy country fellow; a clown; a country lout.

Bumptious (a.)

Self-conceited; forward; pushing.

Bumptiousness (n.)

Conceitedness.

Bun (n.)

Alt. of Bunn

Bunch (n.)

A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.

Bunch (n.)

A collection, cluster, or tuft, properly of things of the same kind, growing or fastened together; as, a bunch of grapes; a bunch of keys.

Bunch (n.)

A small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished from a continuous vein.

Bunch (v. i.)

To swell out into a bunch or protuberance; to be protuberant or round.

Bunch (v. t.)

To form into a bunch or bunches.

Bunch grass

A grass growing in bunches and affording pasture. In California, Atropis tenuifolia, Festuca scabrella, and several kinds of Stipa are favorite bunch grasses. In Utah, Eriocoma cuspidata is a good bunch grass.

Bunch-backed (a.)

Having a bunch on the back; crooked.

Bunchberry (n.)

The dwarf cornel (Cornus Canadensis), which bears a dense cluster of bright red, edible berries.

Bunched (imp. & p. p.)

of Bunch

Bunchiness (n.)

The quality or condition of being bunchy; knobbiness.

Bunching (p. pr. & vb. n.)

of Bunch

Bunchy (a.)

Swelling out in bunches.

Bunchy (a.)

Yielding irregularly; sometimes rich, sometimes poor; as, a bunchy mine.

Bunchy (a.)

Growing in bunches, or resembling a bunch; having tufts; as, the bird's bunchy tail.

Buncombe (n.)

Alt. of Bunkum

Bund (n.)

An embankment against inundation.