bunch
Plural: bunches
Noun
- a grouping of a number of similar things
- "a bunch of trees"
- an informal body of friends
- any collection in its entirety
- A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
- The illegitimate supplying of laboratory animals that are act
- The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
- An informal body of friends.
- A considerable amount.
- An unmentioned amount; a number.
- A group of logs tied together for skidding.
- An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
- 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.
- A seventeenth-century unit of Rhenish glass, 60 of which constitute a way or web.
Verb
Verb Forms: bunched, bunching, bunches
- To gather or group things together closely.
- form into a bunch
- "The frightened children bunched together in the corner of the classroom"
- gather or cause to gather into a cluster
- "She bunched her fingers into a fist"
- To gather into a bunch.
- To gather fabric into folds.
- To form a bunch.
- To be gathered together in folds
- To protrude or swell
Examples
- a bunch of bananas
- a bunch of grapes
- a bunch of keys
- A bunch of them went down to the field.
- a bunch of trouble
- a bunch of yobs on a street corner
- All his high-value tiles tended to BUNCH up at the end of the game.
- He still hangs out with the same bunch.
- Two to four filler leaves are laid end to end and rolled into the two halves of the binder leaves, making up what is called the bunch.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English bunche, bonche (“hump, swelling”), of uncertain origin.
Perhaps a variant of *bunge (compare dialectal bung (“heap, grape bunch”)), from Proto-Germanic *bunkō, *bunkô, *bungǭ (“heap, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ-, *bʰénǵʰus (“thick, dense, fat”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian Bunke (“bone”), West Frisian bonke (“bone, lump, bump”), Dutch bonk (“lump, bone”), Low German Bunk (“bone”), German Bunge (“tuber”), Danish bunke (“heap, pile”), Faroese bunki (“heap, pile”); Hittite [Term?] (/panku/, “total, entire”), Tocharian B pkante (“volume, fatness”), Lithuanian búožė (“knob”), Ancient Greek παχύς (pakhús, “thick”), Kamkata-viri břẽć, břez (“berry tree”), Prasuni vuzra (“berry tree”), Sanskrit बहु (bahú, “thick; much”)).
Alternatively, perhaps from a variant or diminutive of bump (compare hump/hunch, lump/lunch, etc.); or from dialectal Old French bonge (“bundle”) (compare French bongeau, bonjeau, bonjot), from West Flemish bondje, diminutive of West Flemish bond (“bundle”).
Synonyms
bunch together, bunch up, bundle, caboodle, clump, cluster, clustering, crew, crowd, gang, lot, bunch of ore, circle, group, kidney, nest, nest of ore, ore bunch, ore pocket, pack, pocket, pocket of ore
Scrabble Score: 12
bunch: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordbunch: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
bunch: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary