bunch /bunch or bunsh/

1. A number of things aggregated or fastened together
2. A definite quantity fastened together, as of linen yarn (180000 yards), etc
3. A cluster
4. A handful, eg of flowers
5. A group (informal)
6. Something in the form of a tuft or knot
7. (in pl) a hairstyle in which the hair is pulled to both sides at the back of the head, and each tuft secured with a band or ribbon
8. A lump, hump, swelling (obsolete)

1. To swell out in a bunch
2. To cluster, form a tight group

1. To make a bunch of
2. To concentrate

bunched adjective

1. Gathered into a bunch
2. Humped, protuberant
3. Lumpy

bunchˈiness noun

bunchˈing noun

1. The act of drawing together into a bunch
2. Too close grouping together of cars on a motorway, etc (esp after a long gap), of ships arriving in port, etc

bunchˈy adjective

1. Growing in bunches or like a bunch
2. Bulging

bunchˈ-backed adjective (Shakespeare)

Hump-backed

bunch grass noun

Any of several clumped W American grasses

bunch of fives see under five

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