Definitions for buntings

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buntings bun·ting

Spelling: [buhn-ting]

IPA: /ˈbʌn tɪŋ/

Buntings is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 175 anagrams from letters in buntings (bginnstu).

Definitions for buntings

noun

1. a coarse, open fabric of worsted or cotton for flags, signals, etc.
2. patriotic and festive decorations made from such cloth, or from paper, usually in the form of draperies, wide streamers, etc., in the colors of the national flag.
3. flags, especially a vessel's flags, collectively.
4. any of several small, chiefly seed-eating birds of the genera Emberiza, Passerina, and Plectrophenax.
5. a hooded sleeping garment for infants.
6. a push with the head or horns; butt.
7. Baseball. the act of bunting. a bunted ball.

verb (used with object)

1. (of a goat or calf) to push with the horns or head; butt.
2. Baseball. to bat (a pitched ball) very gently so that it rolls into the infield close to home plate, usually by holding the bat loosely in hands spread apart and allowing the ball to bounce off it.

verb (used without object)

1. to push (something) with the horns or head.
2. Baseball. to bunt a ball.

Origin of buntings

1735-45; perhaps orig. “sifting cloth,” hence bunt to sift (Middle English bonten) + -ing¹

Examples for buntings

She was even sweet to that smug ingrate Miss bunting after she kept insulting everyone at dinner.

Or at least, we wouldn't celebrate it with two weeks of bunting.

Shops are covered in Union Jacks, bunting has sold out, and everyone loves an excuse to bake patriotic cookies.

Deck the table out in red white and blue with poppers, hats and blowers and have bunting all along the street.

The bunting dipped and the banners fluttered and the flags whipped.

“Well, it might be worse,” he confided to bunting out in the corral.

The stage was the bright spot, due to the decorations of flags, banners and bunting.

The scarred wooden pillars of its portico were hidden with bunting.

“Nothing says celebration quite like bunting,” the site went on to declare.

The ships in the harbour were also dressed with fire instead of bunting.