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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: 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.
bantlin, bantling, bunt, buntie, buntin, buntles, buntlin,
bunt [ˈbʌntɪn]
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.
biroo, broo, bureau, buroo, burroo,
bureau [bʌˈruː, bəˈruː, bruː]
n. The unemployment benefit office or the benefit received.

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