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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ortolan \Or"to*lan\, n. [F., fr. It. ortolano ortolan, gardener, fr. L. hortulanus gardener, fr. hortulus, dim. of hortus garden. So called because it frequents the hedges of gardens. See Yard an inclosure, and cf. Hortulan.] (Zo["o]l.)
A European singing bird ( Emberiza hortulana), about the size of the lark, with black wings. It is esteemed delicious food when fattened. Called also bunting.
In England, the wheatear ( Saxicola [oe]nanthe).
In America, the sora, or Carolina rail ( Porzana Carolina). See Sora.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"flag material," 1742, perhaps from Middle English bonting gerundive of bonten "to sift," because cloth was used for sifting grain, via Old French, from Vulgar Latin *bonitare "to make good."
lark-like bird, c.1300, bountyng, of unknown origin. Perhaps from buntin "plump" (compare baby bunting, also Scots buntin "short and thick;" Welsh bontin "rump," and bontinog "big-assed"), or a double diminutive of French bon. Or it might be named in reference to speckled plumage and be from an unrecorded Old English word akin to German bunt "speckled," Dutch bont.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 strip of material used as festive decoration, especially in the colours of the national flag. 2 (context nautical English) A thin cloth of woven wool from which flags are made; it is light enough to spread in a gentle wind but resistant to fraying in a strong wind. 3 flag considered as a group. Etymology 3
n. Any of various songbirds, mostly of the genus ''Emberiza'', having short bills and brown or gray plumage. Etymology 4
vb. (present participle of bunt English)
WordNet
n. a loosely woven fabric used for flags, etc.
any of numerous seed-eating songbirds of Europe or North America
Wikipedia
Buntings are a group of Eurasian and African passerine birds of the family Emberizidae.
They are seed-eating birds with stubby, conical bills, and are the Old World equivalents of the species known in North America as (American) sparrows. (However, these birds are not closely related to the Old World sparrows which are in the family Passeridae.)
Some emberizids are still named "finches" rather than "buntings". Conversely, there are species retaining the name "bunting" which are now classed in the family Cardinalidae. Among those are the painted and indigo buntings.
Bunting may refer to:
- Bunting (surname)
- Bunting (bird), a group of birds
- Bunting (animal behavior)
- Bunting (horse) (1961-1985/86), a Swedish horse which appeared in films
- Bunting (clothing), infant sleeping bag
- The act of laying down a bunt, a type of offensive play in baseball
- Bunting (textile), a lightweight cloth material often used for flags and festive decorations
- A term of endearment that may also imply "plump" – as in the nursery rhyme Bye, baby Bunting
Bunting is a form of animal behavior, often found in cats, in which the animal butts or rubs their head against other things, including people. It is generally considered to be a form of territorial scent-marking behavior, where the cat rubs the scent glands on their cheeks and forehead on the object being marked.
Bunting is a normal animal behavior, and should be distinguished from head pressing, which is abnormal and typically a sign of illness.
Bunting (or bunt) was originally a specific type of lightweight worsted wool fabric generically known as tammy, manufactured from the turn of the 17th century, and used for making ribbons and flags, including signal flags for the Royal Navy. Amongst other properties that made the fabric suitable for ribbons and flags was its high glaze, achieved by a process including hot-pressing. The origin of the word is uncertain.
Today, bunting is a term for any festive decorations made of fabric, or of plastic, paper or even cardboard in imitation of fabric. Typical forms of bunting are strings of colorful triangular flags and lengths of fabric in the colors of national flags gathered and draped into swags or pleated into fan shapes.
The term bunting is also used to refer to a collection of flags, and particularly those of a ship. The officer responsible for raising signals using flags is known as bunts, a term still used for a ship's communications officer.
Bunting is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Arthur Bunting, British rugby league footballer and coach
- Basil Bunting (1900-1985), British modernist poet
- Bill Bunting (born 1947), American basketball player
- Chris Bunting, British comic book writer
- Christopher Bunting (1925-2005), English cellist
- Christopher William Bunting (1837-1896), Irish-born Canadian politician
- Clark Bunting, American television executive
- David Michael Bunting (born 1960), British poet/musician
- Edward Bunting (1773-1843), Irish musician
- Edward L. Bunting (1883-1962), English cricketer
- Eve Bunting (born 1928), Californian author
- Hem Bunting (born 1985), Cambodian athlete
- Jabez Bunting (1779-1858), British preacher
- Jo Bunting, television producer
- John Bunting (serial killer) (born 1966), Australian serial killer
- John Bunting (coach) (born 1950), American football coach
- Josiah Bunting III (born 1939), American educator
- La Farrell Bunting (born 1980), American boxer
- Madeleine Bunting, British journalist
- Mark Bain-Bunting Jr. (journalist), Canadian journalist
- Mary Bunting (1910-1998), American college president
- Robert Franklin Bunting (1828-1891), American Presbyterian minister and Confederate chaplain.
- Ronald Bunting, British army officer
- Ronnie Bunting (died 1980), Irish political activist
- Stephen Bunting (born 1985), British darts player
- Thomas L. Bunting (1844-1898), American politician
- William Bunting (1874–1947), English rugby player
- William Bunting (eco-warrior) (1916–1995), English environmentalist and eco-warrior
Fictional characters:
- Reverend Bunting, character in The Invisible Man
Bunting (1961–1985/86) was a Swedish halfbreed skimmel horse made famous for his participation in the Olle Hellbom films by Astrid Lindgrens Pippi Longstocking. He played Pippi's horse Lilla gubben.
Bunting was first called Illbatting and then Batting; he was owned by Rudolf Öberg, and had been a gift for him at his 60th birthday. When it was time to film the Pippi movies the filmcrew contacted him and used Bunting during filming. Bunting was completely white so the crew had to spray black dots on his skin. They also had to colour him to make him look more like the horse in the books. It was during filming that Inger Nilsson, the actress who played Pippi, choosed the name of Lilla gubben. In the books her horse is only mentioned as "the horse".
After the final film was completed Bunting returned to a riding school, and was later moved to a stable in Vallentuna where he later died at the age of 24.
Usage examples of "bunting".
This air is enhanced by the presence of five aspidistras, placed in a row on the top of the bunting, which has been stretched across the top, over the opening and the turned-back lid, tightly fixed to the edges with drawing pins, and allowed to fall in artistic festoons down the sides and in a sort of valance-like effect across the front.
When the chauffeur had gone, Georgie re-pinned the bunting over the open top of the piano, replaced the aspidistras and decamped.
It was a funny, rather smelly little place, and she hurried as much as she could, the more so that the foreigner who served her insisted on telling her some of the strange, peculiar details of this Avenger murder which had taken place forty-eight hours before, and in which Bunting took such a morbid interest.
When Bunting began to ask Joe Chandler about the last of those awful Avenger murders, she even listened with a certain languid interest to all he had to say.
Bunting always visioned The Avenger as a black shadow in the centre a bright blinding light--but the shadow had no form or definite substance.
Bunting now remembered, had given a most circumstantial account of what The Avenger looked like, for he, it was supposed, had actually brushed by her as he passed.
Bunting thought he ought to have been to occupy so important a position on so important a day--gave a little history, as it were, of the terrible and mysterious Avenger crimes.
Bunting realised that this was the woman who claimed to have seen The Avenger from her bedroom window.
Bunting was now mortally afraid of this discussion concerning The Avenger and his doings, they heard Mrs.
Early in their coaching careers, Williams and Bunting had been colleagues at Rowan University, a Division III school in New Jersey.
They had missed the spectacular breeding colonies of the spring when the cliffs were white with nesting guillemots and razorbills and the puffin burrows honeycombed the turf, but there were other visitors now: the migrant goldcrests and fieldfares and buntings -and the seals, hundreds of them, returning to have their pups.
The owlet was starving, for there was only the bunting, when there should have been dozens of lemmings.
She picked up the bunting and owlet, regretting that she had found a provider only to lose him again.
The canvas was tattered and dirty, the bunting faded and cheap, the pitchmen sleazy, the milling students bestial.
Betsy and Ginger had accompanied Louis on the stump, Ginger sat on the edge of Grange Hall st agings swinging her attractive legs and shredding the red, white, and blue bunting with her three-inch heels, all the while complaining of the rigors of political wifehood and wondering whether she was going to end up with her own ritzy rehab clinic someday, just like Betty Ford.