bunting

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• UK, US: /ˈbʌntɪŋ/
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From bunting, a nickname for someone who resembled the songbird.

Possibly from dialect bunting (“sifting flour”), from Middle English bonten (“to sift”), hence the material used for that purpose. Possibly from Germanic bundt (“to bind or tie together”).

From Middle English bunting, bountyng, buntynge (also as Middle English buntyle), of uncertain origin. Possibly a reference to speckled plumage, from an unrecorded Middle English *bunt (“spotted, speckled, pied”) akin to Dutch bont, Middle Low German bunt, bont, German bunt (“multi-coloured”) + -ing.

1922, apparently from Scots buntin (“plump, short and thick (esp. of children)”), itself an old term of endearment for children (1660s); the sense “plump” dates to the 1500s, and may be related to bunt (“belly of a sail”). Possibly related to butt (“(both noun and verb sense: buttocks; strike with head)”) or to bunny (“rabbit”). Compare with the nursery rhyme Bye, baby Bunting (1731), either of same origin or influenced this sense.

57 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Czech: vlajkosláva — strips of material hung as decoration
• Czech: vlajková výzdoba — strips of material hung as decoration
• Dutch: vlaggenlijn — strips of material hung as decoration
• Finnish: lippunauha — strips of material hung as decoration
• Finnish: viirinauha — strips of material hung as decoration
• French: banderole — strips of material hung as decoration
• German: Verzierung aus Flaggen- und Wimpelketten — strips of material hung as decoration
• German: Fahnen- und Bannerdekoration — strips of material hung as decoration
• Hungarian: zászlófüzér — strips of material hung as decoration
• Italian: festone — strips of material hung as decoration
• Malay: gegantung — strips of material hung as decoration
• Malay: pepanji — strips of material hung as decoration
• Swedish: flaggspel — strips of material hung as decoration
• Swedish: girlang — strips of material hung as decoration
• Afrikaans: dundoek — material from which flags are made
• Afrikaans: vlagdoek — material from which flags are made
• Bulgarian: плат за знамена (plat za znamena) — material from which flags are made
• Czech: vlajkovina — material from which flags are made
• Dutch: dundoek — material from which flags are made
• Dutch: vlaggendoek — material from which flags are made
• Finnish: lippukangas — material from which flags are made
• German: Flaggentuch — material from which flags are made
• Hungarian: etamin — material from which flags are made
• Hungarian: molton — material from which flags are made
• Icelandic: flaggdúkur — material from which flags are made
• Russian: флагду́к (flagdúk) — material from which flags are made
• Ottoman Turkish: بیراقلق (bayraklık) — material from which flags are made
• Italian: bandierine — flags as a group
• Albanian: beng — bird
• Albanian: fugë — bird
• Asturian: escribana — bird
• Bulgarian: жълта овесарка (žǎlta ovesarka) — bird
• Bulgarian: овесарка (ovesarka) — bird
• Catalan: sit — bird
• Cornish: bras — bird
• Czech: strnad — bird
• Dutch: gors — bird
• Dutch: gorsje — bird
• Finnish: sirkku — bird
• French: bruant — bird
• German: Ammer — bird
• Hebrew: גבתון (gibtón) — bird
• Hungarian: sármány — bird
• Icelandic: tittlingur — bird
• Irish: gealóg — bird
• Italian: zigolo — bird
• Latvian: stērste — bird
• Lithuanian: starta — bird
• Polish: trznadel — bird
• Portuguese: emberiza — bird
• Romanian: presură — bird
• Russian: овся́нка (ovsjánka) — bird
• Scottish Gaelic: gealag — bird
• Spanish: escribano — bird
• Ukrainian: вівся́нка (vivsjánka) — bird
• Volapük: berit — bird
• Welsh: bras — bird