bunt

1. 1.

   hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance

   Synonymsdrag a bunt

   Broaderhit

   baseball

2. 2.

   to strike, thrust or shove against

   “He butted his sister out of the way”

   “The goat butted the hiker with his horns”

   Synonymsbutt

   Broaderstrike

   Narrowerheadbutt

Other forms of bunt

plural

bunts·

past tense

bunted·

present participle

bunting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bunt

What does bunt mean?

bunt means "(baseball) the act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bunt?

bunt has 1 syllable: bunt. In IPA it is /ˈbʌnt/.

What is another word for bunt?

Close synonyms include stinking smut, stinking smut, Tilletia foetida, Tilletia caries, drag a bunt. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bunt a common word?

bunt is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.