Definitions for bunion

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bunion bun·ion

Spelling: [buhn-yuh n]

IPA: /ˈbʌn yən/

Bunion is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in bunion (binnou).

Definitions for bunion

noun

1. inflammation of the synovial bursa of the great toe, usually resulting in enlargement of the joint and lateral displacement of the toe.

Origin of bunion

1710-20; perhaps alteration of bunny (obsolete) lump, swelling, late Middle English bony, probably alteration of Old French buigne, buyne (French beigne) swelling, of Germanic orig.; cf.

Examples for bunion

bunion, bun′yun, n. a lump or inflamed swelling on the ball of the great toe.

I flatter myself we could fit the biggest beetle-crusher ever bunion'd into the shape of a giant potato or a Californian nugget.

Here you are, gents, the most wonderful corn and bunion salve in the market!

She said there wasn't no such thing as pain, and the bunion made it its first business to do a little denyin' on its own account.

When a bunion is forming it may be stopped by poulticing and carefully opening it with a lancet.

An enlargement of the basal joint of the great toe, probably a bunion, is also comparatively common.

Owing, I fancy, to a bunion, she was so leisurely a walker that it was I who must set my pace to hers.

In the general relaxation Dolly Beatty slipped off her tightest shoe, one bunion and four corns clamoring loudly for room.

And, stepping forward in the boat, he kicked Michael on a bunion.

A bursa may form beneath a corn, and if inflamed constitutes one form of bunion.