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bamflie, bamfly, bomf, bumf, bumfelt, bumff, bumfill, bumfle, bumfled, bumflie, bumfly, bump, bumph, bumphelt, bumphle, bumphlie, bumphly, bumple,
bump [bʌmp]
also bumph [bʌmf]
n. A bump, a lump, a bundle. A stupid fellow.
 
bumphle [bʌmfl, ˈbʌmfɪl]
n. An untidy bundle, a pucker, ruffle, in a garment, an untidy mass of clothing.
v. To puff out. To roll up untidily.
pt. pp. bumphelt [bʌmf(ə)lt] adj. Puffed out, bulging, rolled up untitily, rumpled
 
bumphlie [bʌmflɪ]
adj. Bundled up, rumpled, untidily put on.
bun,
bun [bʌn]
n. A bun, the buttocks, a rabit or hare's tail.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
black bun: A rich fruit cake for Hogmanay.
bonse, bonsh, boonce, boonced, booncit, bounce, bunce, bunce$t, bunced,
bunce [bʌns]
v. To bounce. To push or strike with the head.
pt. pp. bunced, bunce't
bunce, bunch, buns, bunse, bunsh,
bunch [bʌnʃ, WC. SW. bʌns]
n. A bunch. A short thick little girl, a rather stout, tidy little woman.
Buneoch, Bunyeoch,
Buneoch [ˈbʌnjɔx]
pn. Bunzeoch (Aberdeenshire).
bung, bung$t, bunged, bungfou, bungfu, bung-fu, bungfu$, bungin, bungit, bungt,
bung [bʌŋ]
n. A throw, a blow, bang or slap. A violent rush. A booming or twanging sound, ill-humour, huff.
adv. With sudden impetus, with sudden impact.
v. To throw violently. To offend. To take offence, become sulky.
pt. pp. bungt, bunged
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
bungfu [-fə S. -fɛ, -fɪ, EC. -fe, WC. -fɑ, N. -fɛ, U. I. -fu]: Completely full, drunk.
bungin: Throwing etc.
in a bung: In a temper.
on the bung: In the huff.
 
See bang also.
bung, bungie, bungy,
bungie [bʌŋɪ]
n. A worthless person.
bunk, bunkart, bunker, bunkert, bunki, bunkie, bunkwife,
bunk [bʌŋk]
n. A chest used as a seat, the lodgings of a St. Andrews student.
dim. bunkie I.Sh. A wooden bucket.
v. To lodge.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
bunker, bunkert [-ər(t), ˈbɪŋk-]: A chest or box, a seat usually in the window, a kitchen work-surface, a small sandpit on a golf course.
bunkwife: A landlady.
bannet, bannetie, bannety, black_bonnet, black-bannet, black-bunnet, bleck-bunnet, blue-bonnet, blue-bunnet, bonnad, bonnet, bonnetie, bonnety, bunnet, bunnetie, bunnets, bunnety, bunnit, bunnitie, bunnity,
bunnet [ˈbʌnət]
n. A bonnet, soft flat hat. A man's flat round cap.
dim. bunnetie A bushy untrimmed bit in a hedge. An odd-looking person.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
black-bunnet: An elder of the kirk. The reed bunting Emberiza schoeniclus.
blue-bunnet, blue-bunnetie: The blue tit Cyanistes caeruleus.
blue bunnets: The cornflower Centaurea cyanus or greater knapweed Centaurea scabiosa.
bunnetie: The great crested grebe Podiceps cristatus.
hae a bee in your bunnet: To be hare-brained, mad in some respect.
scuipit bunnet: A cloth cap with a peak.
bunl, bunnle,
bunnle [bʌnl]
n. A bundle.
v. To bundle.

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