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bantlin, bantling, bunt, buntie, buntin, buntles, buntlin,
bunt [bʌnt]
n. A short, plump person. A hen without a rump.
dim. buntie
 
bunty
adj. SEC. Short, thick-set.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
bere-buntlin: SW. The corn bunting Miliaria calandra.
buntin: MN. A stout, thick-set person. Plump short and stout.
buntles: SW. A child.
buntlin: A short person. A bunting. SN. MN. The corn bunting Miliaria calandra. Short and thick.
chirlie buntin: I.Ork. The corn bunting Miliaria calandra.
buo, buoc, buock,
buock [′buək]
Also buo [′buo]
n. I.Ork. A small boil or oozing pimple.
burbelt, burble, burbled, burrble,
burble [SW. ˈbʌrbl]
n. A tangle.
v. To tangle.
pt. pp. burbelt adj. Tangled, disordered.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
in a burble: In a tangle.
burd, burdie,
burd [bʌrd]
n. A woman, a (youn) lady, a maiden.
dim. burdie
back-birn, back-burden, birn, birren, burdeen, burden, burdn, burthen, burthen,
burden [bɪrdən, bʌrdən, n. also bɪrn, bʌrn, bɛrn]
also arch. burthen [ˈbʌrðən]
n. A burden, a load. Figuratively a crowd, a race, a tribe.
v. To burden.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
back-burden: A load on the back.
public burdens: Taxes etc.
owerburden:Overburden. pp. adj. owerburdent
biroo, broo, bureau, buroo, burroo,
bureau [bʌˈruː, bəˈruː, bruː]
n. The unemployment benefit office or the benefit received.
burgage, burgher,
burgage [ˈbʌrgədʒ, ˈbʌrgɪdʒ, ˈbʌrgɪtʃ]
n. A form of tenure by which burgh land is held of and under the Crown in free burgage.
 
burgher
n. A member of that section of the Secession Church which upheld the lawfulness of the Burgess oath.
burgat,
burgat [NN.a. ˈbʌrgət]
n. A soup made of black peas.
Birges, Birgis, Borgis, Burges, Burgess, Burghess,
Burges [ˈbʌrdʒəs]
pn. Bruges (Flanders, Belgium).
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
burges threid: Flaxen thread named after Burges where the flax for the thread was grown.
burgess, comburgess, conburgess,
burgess [ˈbʌrdʒəs]
n. An inhabitant of a burgh with full rights of citizenship.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
comburgess: A fellow burgess.

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