bunch

English

/ˈbʌntʃ/

noun
Definitions
  • A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
  • (cycling) The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
  • An informal body of friends.
  • (US) A considerable amount.
  • (informal) An unmentioned amount; a number.
  • (forestry) A group of logs tied together for skidding.
  • (geology) An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
  • (textiles) 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.
  • A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English bunche inherited from Proto-Germanic *bunkō derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (thick, dense, fat) derived from Old French bonge (bundle) derived from West Flemish bondje, bond (bundle) root from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (thick, dense, fat).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*bʰenǵʰ-

Gloss

thick, dense, fat

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