bunt

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun (baseball) the act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat
noun disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores
noun similar to Tilletia caries

Unknown. Perhaps a nasalised variant of butt.

If we’re not satisfied, let us have a bunt of our own. — War and Peace, Leo, graf Tolstoy
Immediately thereafter, Dr. M. T. Jenkins, Director of the Department of Anesthesia, and Doctors Giesecke and Bunt, two other Staff Anesthesiologists, arrived. — Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, United States. Warren Commission
I suppose a Saint-Gaudens might say that her mouth was too big and a Gibson might add that her nose hadn't the narrow rectitude of a Greek statue's, but she's a beautiful, a beautiful--"woman" was the word I was going to write, but the word "animal" just bunts and shoves itself in, like a stabled cow insisting on its own stall. — The Prairie Wife, Arthur Stringer

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