bunch en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /bʌnt͡ʃ/ (US)
- /bʌntʃ/ (UK)
- (US) audio
- /bʌnʃ/ (UK)
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 𒉺𒀭𒆪𒍑 (/pankuš/, “total, entire”), Tocharian B pkante (“volume, fatness”), Lithuanian búožė (“knob”), Ancient Greek παχύς (pakhús, “thick”), 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”).
Meanings
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(collective) A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:a bunch of keys
a bunch of bananas
Why do we sometimes find three buses on the same route arriving together at a bus stop? What is the explanation of bunching? […] Meanwhile there are other buses following on the same route. The 600-yard interval between the second and third bus is decreased by every second's delay to the leaders, and before long the third bus has caught up. That is why buses sometimes arrive at the bus stop in bunches.
1949 July and August, Railway Magazine, page vii, advertisement by London Transport:a bunch of yobs on a street corner
a bunch of grapes
When we had examined this last find, Lord Godalming and Quincey Morris taking accurate notes of the various addresses of the houses in the East and the South, took with them the keys in a great bunch, and set out to destroy the boxes in these places.
1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 21, in Dracula:
- (collective) The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
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(collective) An informal body of friends.
“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers,[…], the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"
1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:He still hangs out with the same bunch.
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(US, informal) A considerable amount.
a bunch of trouble
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(informal) An unmentioned amount; a number.
A bunch of them went down to the field.
- A group of logs tied together for skidding.
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An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
The ore may be disseminated throughout the matrix in minute particles, as gold in quartz; in parallel threads, strings, and plates, as with copper; in irregular pockets or bunches
1874, David Page, Economic Geology: Or, Geology in Its Relations to the Arts and Manufactures:
- 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.
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An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.
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.
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A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
They will carry[…]their treasures upon the bunches of camels.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 30:6:
- (obsolete) A seventeenth-century unit of Rhenish glass, 60 of which constitute a way or web.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| bunches | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
bunchberry · one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch · honeybunch · nanobunch · kissing-bunch · bunch grass · Willow Bunch · bunchgrass · bunchy · microbunch · get one's panties in a bunch · buncha · best of the bunch · bunch pink · thanks a bunch · bunchlet · bunchflower · bunch of fives · bluebunch
Synonyms
ore bunch (unusual concentration of ore) · group (informal body of friends) · nest of ore (unusual concentration of ore) · circle (informal body of friends) · pack (informal body of friends) · pocket of ore (unusual concentration of ore) · cluster (group of similar things) · nest (unusual concentration of ore) · gang (informal body of friends) · pocket (unusual concentration of ore) · kidney (unusual concentration of ore) · group (group of similar things) · ore pocket (unusual concentration of ore) · bunch of ore (unusual concentration of ore)
Translations (261)
gl culimaia (an informal body of friends) · fr bande (an informal body of friends) · ar حُزْمَة (a group of similar things) · el παρέα (an informal body of friends) · no gjeng (an informal body of friends) · uk буке́т (a group of similar things) · es catizumbazo (a considerable amount) · es arlo (a cluster of grapes) · uk жмут (a group of similar things) · mn туг (a group of similar things) · oc ponhada (a group of similar things) · ota باغ (a group of similar things) · haw hui (a group of similar things) · es acervo (a considerable amount) · es porrillo (a considerable amount) · fr botte (a group of similar things) · gl manda (a group of similar things) · ga dornán (a group of similar things) · es caterva (a considerable amount) · wa binde (an informal body of friends) · th พวง (a group of similar things) · he מספר (a group of similar things) · la racēmus (a cluster of grapes) · az salxım (a cluster of grapes) · fr poche (an unusual concentration of ore) · cs hrozen (a cluster of grapes) · pl bukiet (a group of similar things) · fr poupe (an unfinished cigar) · gl gavela (a group of similar things) · ja 房 (a group of similar things) · hy փունջ (a group of similar things) · sw fungu (a group of similar things) · es gabejo (a group of similar things) · lzz ჭაბა (a cluster of grapes) · gl banda (an informal body of friends) · el δέσμη (a group of similar things) · es mundo (a considerable amount) · he חופן (a group of similar things) · ca raïm (a group of similar things) · gl currobla (an informal body of friends) · no bunke (a group of similar things) · ja 房 (a cluster of grapes) · be гро́нка (a cluster of grapes) · da bundt (a group of similar things) · mnc ᠰᡝᡶᡝᡵᡝ (a group of similar things) · fr poupée (an unfinished cigar) · ca raïm (a cluster of grapes) · ko 송이 (a cluster of grapes) · cs parta (an informal body of friends) · fr bouquet (a group of similar things) · el βότρυς (a group of similar things) · mi kāhui (a group of similar things) · it grappolo (a cluster of grapes) · ar عُنْقُود (a cluster of grapes) · oc manada (a group of similar things) · no klase (a cluster of grapes) · be кампа́нія (an informal body of friends) · hy ողկույզ (a cluster of grapes) · it comitiva (an informal body of friends) · gl feixe (a group of similar things) · fr tas (a considerable amount) · es manojo (a group of similar things) · gl barda (a considerable amount) · ota دمت (a group of similar things) · fr poche de minerai (an unusual concentration of ore) · gl fateixo (a group of similar things) · es mogollón (a considerable amount) · izh kimppu (a group of similar things) · el δεμάτι (a group of logs tied together for skidding) · uk компа́нія (an informal body of friends) · wa tchén (an unfinished cigar) · it ciuffo (a group of similar things) · es patulea (a considerable amount) · kix āchūm (a group of similar things) · cmn 串 (a cluster of grapes) · gl morea (a considerable amount) · th กลุ่ม (a group of similar things) · ro mănunchi (a group of similar things) · el δέσμη (a group of logs tied together for skidding) · hy խուրձ (a considerable amount) · hy խումբ (a group of similar things) · es ramo (a group of similar things) · cs spousta (a considerable amount) · gl rebullón (a considerable amount) · uk ки́тиця (a group of similar things) · pt cacho (a cluster of grapes) · uk пучо́к (a group of similar things) · cmn 束 (a group of similar things) · ro ciorchine (a cluster of grapes) · es bonchote (a group of similar things) · ota صالقم (a cluster of grapes) · eo fasko (a group of logs tied together for skidding) · es sarta (a considerable amount) · gl chea (a considerable amount) · ja 束 (a group of similar things) · sq tufë (a group of similar things) · el τσαμπί (a group of similar things) · fr grappe (a cluster of grapes) · ru буке́т (a group of similar things) · fr paquet (a considerable amount) · vi bó (a group of similar things) · hu fürt (a cluster of grapes) · es racimo (a cluster of grapes) · gl acio (a cluster of grapes) · ar حُزْمَة (a considerable amount) · fi kimppu (a group of similar things) · es macanazo (a considerable amount) · de Traube (a cluster of grapes) · es culantro (a considerable amount) · es colgajo (a cluster of grapes) · nl tros (a cluster of grapes) · alt тудам (a group of similar things) · es pocotón (a considerable amount) · mi tautau (a group of similar things) · lad alay (a considerable amount) · vi đống (a considerable amount) · es catizumbada (a considerable amount) · he קבוצה (a group of similar things) · th หวี (a group of similar things) · eu multzo (a group of similar things) · es raudal (a considerable amount) · pl paczka (an informal body of friends) · uk ґро́но (a cluster of grapes) · da bunke (a group of similar things) · lzz ჭაჭა (a cluster of grapes) · vi buồng (a group of similar things) · nrf bott'lée (a group of similar things) · es puñado (a group of similar things) · gl cadrilla (an informal body of friends) · cmn 簇 (a group of similar things) · es huevo (a considerable amount) · ru гроздь (a cluster of grapes) · wa pekêye (a considerable amount) · bg ки́тка (a group of similar things) · fi nippu (a group of similar things) · be пучо́к (a group of similar things) · es pandilla (an informal body of friends) · hu köteg (a group of similar things) · ko 다발 (a group of similar things) · fr réserve (reserve yarn on the filling bobbin) · es montón (a considerable amount) · ca grup (an informal body of friends) · fo tyssi (a group of similar things) · gl cacho (a cluster of grapes) · gl escádea (a cluster of grapes) · cs banda (an informal body of friends) · vec graspo (a cluster of grapes) · es mazo (a group of similar things) · hu csomó (a group of similar things) · pt cambada (an informal body of friends) · fr poche minéralisée (an unusual concentration of ore) · pl pęk (a group of similar things) · wa masse (a considerable amount) · ru пучо́к (a group of similar things) · cmn 嘟嚕 /嘟噜 (a cluster of grapes) · uk ке́тяг (a cluster of grapes) · cs partička (an informal body of friends) · gl brollo (a considerable amount) · gl monlla (a group of similar things) · el συμμορία (an informal body of friends) · es cerro (a considerable amount) · fr javelle (a group of logs tied together for skidding) · ru мно́го (a considerable amount) · eo traŭbo (a cluster of grapes) · wa troke (a group of similar things) · da klase (a cluster of grapes) · el όγκος (a considerable amount) · cs skupina (an informal body of friends) · bg връ́зка (a group of similar things) · mi pūtoitanga (a group of similar things) · uk гурт (an informal body of friends) · es haz (a group of similar things) · be звя́зка (a group of similar things) · ca colla (an informal body of friends) · gl cangallo (a cluster of grapes) · fi koko joukko (a considerable amount) · nl bos (a group of similar things) · es culo (a considerable amount) · pl kiść (a group of similar things) · es gavilla (a group of similar things) · vi chùm (a group of similar things) · es chingo (a considerable amount) · rup mãnuclju (a group of similar things) · uk кі́м'ях (a group of similar things) · alt буулам (a group of similar things) · tr salkım (a cluster of grapes) · uk в'я́зка (a group of similar things) · ca grapat (a group of similar things) · ar مَجْمُوعَة (an informal body of friends) · es parva (a considerable amount) · uk гру́па (a group of similar things) · fr mouche (an unusual concentration of ore) · gl mostea (a group of similar things) · wa hopea (a considerable amount) · es bolón (a considerable amount) · cs hodně (a considerable amount) · ky бир тутам (a group of similar things) · it mucchio (a group of similar things) · es fajo (a group of similar things) · ko 송이 (a group of similar things) · hu csokor (a group of similar things) · pt penca (a group of similar things) · es bolsada (an unusual concentration of ore) · sw fungu (an informal body of friends) · wa troke (a cluster of grapes) · es nía (a group of similar things) · uk гро́но (a cluster of grapes) · bg компа́ния (an informal body of friends) · el μάτσο (a group of similar things) · ca banda (an informal body of friends) · gl ramo (a group of similar things) · sv klase (a cluster of grapes) · es chupo (a considerable amount) · sq vesh (a cluster of grapes) · fr peloton (an informal body of friends) · el μπουκέτο (a group of similar things) · he אשכול (a group of similar things) · de Bund (a group of similar things) · gl gavela (a group of logs tied together for skidding) · az topa (a group of similar things) · fi rypäle (a cluster of grapes) · tr demet (a group of similar things) · es montonera (a considerable amount) · it graspo (a group of similar things) · ru ку́ча (a considerable amount) · gl cubillada (an informal body of friends) · cs pěkných pár (a considerable amount) · sw fungu (a considerable amount) · fr nid (an unusual concentration of ore) · es bonche (a considerable amount) · gl conrobla (an informal body of friends) · it mucchio (a considerable amount) · fr groupe (a group of similar things) · hy ողկույզ (a group of similar things) · pt penca (a considerable amount) · lo ເຄືອ (a group of similar things) · lt kekė (a cluster of grapes) · es shuntalada (a considerable amount) · haw ʻāhui (a group of similar things) · pt molho (coletivo de chaves) (a group of similar things) · he צרור (a group of similar things) · ru компа́ния (an informal body of friends) · ru свя́зка (a group of similar things) · es grupo (an informal body of friends) · es manojo (a considerable amount) · kum байлам (a group of similar things) · ru кисть (a cluster of grapes) · eo garbo (a group of similar things) · de Strauß (a group of similar things) · gl piña (a cluster of grapes) · vi chùm (a cluster of grapes) · gl preixada (a group of similar things) · be буке́т (a group of similar things) · es montonal (a considerable amount) · th ช่อ (a group of similar things) · el αρμαθιά (a group of similar things) · pl grono (a cluster of grapes) · gl cambada (a group of similar things) · mi pūtoi (a group of similar things) · bg грозд (a cluster of grapes) · hy խուրձ (a group of similar things)