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▪ I. bunting, n.1|ˈbʌntɪŋ|
Also 4 bountyng, 5 buntynge; cf. the variants bunkin, buntyle, buntlin.
[Origin unknown: Skeat suggests comparison with bunt v.2, Sc. buntin short and thick, plump (see 3), bunt n.5, Welsh bontin the rump, bontinog large-buttocked.]
1. a. The English name of a group of insessorial birds, the Emberizinæ, a sub-family of Fringillidæ allied to the larks. The chief species are the common b. (E. miliaris), also called corn b.; yellow b. (E. citrinella) = yellow-hammer; black-headed b.; reed b. (E. schœniclus); snow b. (Plectrophanes nivalis), a bird inhabiting the arctic regions, and visiting Britain in the winter; rice b. (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) = bobolink. See also cirl, ortolan 2 a, reed-bunting, snow-bunting.
c1300in Wright Lyric P. xi. ix. 40 Ich wold ich were a threstelcok, A bountyng other a lavercok. c1440Promp. Parv. 56 Buntynge, byrde, pratellus. 1601Shakes. All's Well ii. v. 7, I tooke this Larke for a bunting. 1655Mouffet & Benn. Health's Improv. (1746) 188 Buntings feed chiefly upon little Worms. 1789G. White Selborne xiii. (1853) 57 The bunting does not leave this country in the winter. 1878Markham Gt. Frozen Sea xxiv. Great excitement was caused by the appearance of a snow bunting.
b. Applied by extension to any bird of the bunting subfamily, and to similar birds of other families. U.S.
1831Wilson & Bonaparte Amer. Ornith. II. 242 Black-throated Bunting... In their shape and manners they very much resemble the yellow-hammer of Britain. Ibid. 245 Fringilla Graminea,..Emberiza Graminea..Bay-winged Bunting. 1893Newton Dict. Birds 459 Indigo-bird,..a well-known North-American species,..American ornithologists give full accounts of the habits of this bird, together with those of..the still more gaudy Painted Bunting. 1964A. L. Thomson New Dict. Birds 112/1 The buntings (Emberizinae) are predominantly terrestrial.
2. The grey shrimp (Crangon vulgaris).
1836Scenes Comm. by Land & S. 92 Red shrimps, white shrimps, and buntings, or grey shrimps, of which the last are most esteemed for their flavour.
3. A term of endearment: in ‘baby bunting’, the meaning (if there be any at all) may possibly be as in Jamieson's ‘buntin, short and thick, as a buntin brat, a plump child’.
1665Davenant Wits iii. i, Bunting [to the speaker's wife] in very deed, You are to blame. Nursery Rime. Bye, baby bunting, Father's gone a hunting.
4. attrib., esp. bunting lark, the corn bunting; also bunting-lark fly, an angler's fly.
1802Montagu Ornith. Dict. I, Bunting-lark. 1837Kirkbride Northern Angler 25 The Bunting Lark Fly. 1876Encycl. Brit. IV. 525/2 The true Bunting (or Corn-Bunting, or Bunting-Lark, as it is called in some districts). 1884Coues N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 356 Bill very small and truly conic, well exhibiting ‘emberizine’ or ‘bunting’ characters.
▪ II. ˈbunting, n.2
Also 8–9 buntine.
[Origin uncertain: it has been conjecturally derived from bunt v.3 to sift, bolt. The analogy of the Fr. étamine, which means both bolting-cloth and bunting, supports this derivation, although there is no evidence that bunting was ever actually used for ‘bolting-cloth’. The fact mentioned in quot. 1836 would suggest connexion with Ger. bunt, Du. bont parti-coloured. (The word is not in Beawes Lex Mercatoria Rediviva 1752, which has always estamina, -as).]
a. ‘An open-made worsted stuff, used for making flags’ (Ure Dict. Arts); also in general, a flag, or flags collectively.
1742Navy Board Letter to L.C.A. 24 Sept. (MS. in Pub. Rec. O.) The French and Spanish colours allowed his Majesty's Ships are of bunting, whereas those used by the French and Spanish are of linen. 1755Johnson, Bunting, the stuff of which a ship's colours are made. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789) Buntine, a thin woollen stuff, of which the colours and signals of a ship are usually formed. 1832Marryat N. Forster xxxvi, Up goes her bunting. 1836Scenes Comm. by Land & S. 235 Buntine is a thin open sort of woollen stuff..it is woven in stripes, blue, white, red. 1845Darwin Voy. Nat. viii. (1879) 161 A net made of bunting. 1871Pitman Phonogr. 7 Bunting, streaming from the masthead.
b. attrib. bunting-tosser Naval slang, a signaller.
1905Daily Chron. 23 Jan. 3/1 From which breathless catalogue it will be gathered that the path of the ‘bunting-tosser’ is not an easy one! 1909in J. R. Ware Passing Eng.
▪ III. ˈbunting, vbl. n.1
[f. bunt v.1 + -ing1.]
The bellying, bulging, or swelling of a sail, a net, etc.
1681Phil. Collect. XII. No. 3. 62 Without any bellying, bunting, or curvity in the superficies thereof.
▪ IV. bunting vbl. n.2
see bunt v.2
▪ V. bunting, ppl. a.|ˈbʌntɪŋ|
[Of various origin: senses 1, 2, f. bunt v.1 + -ing2.]
1. Of a sail: Bellying, swelling.
a1702R. Hooke in Phil. Trans. LXXIII. 141 To prefer bellying or bunting sails to such as were hauled taught.
2. Swelling, plump; filled out, rounded, short and thick. (But bunting lamb may be from bunt v.2)
1584Peele Arraignm. Paris i. i, I have brought a twagger for the nones, A bunting lamb. 1613Markham Eng. Husbandman i. i. xvii. (1635) 108 Barley for your seede..elect that which is whitest, fullest, and roundest, being as the Plough-man calles it, a full bunting Corne. 1808–25Jamieson Dict., Buntin, short and thick; as a buntin brat, a plump child, Roxb.
3. ? Resembling a rabbit's bunt: short and cocked.
1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 259/2 The stork..hath but a short bunting Tail.
4. ? Untidy, tawdry.
1759Compl. Lett.-Writer (ed. 6) 224 A large Pattern embroider'd Gown..which..was unfashionable and bunting. 1839C. Clark J. Noakes 13 When yow saa Mary drest, Nought she had on look'd bunting. |