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Bunchy   Listen
adjective
Bunchy  adj.  
1.
Swelling out in bunches. "An unshapen, bunchy spear, with bark unpiled."
2.
Growing in bunches, or resembling a bunch; having tufts; as, the bird's bunchy tail.
3.
(Mining) Yielding irregularly; sometimes rich, sometimes poor; as, a bunchy mine.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Bunchy" Quotes from Famous Books



... Arthur declared, "but then, she looks ripping in anything. All the same, the hat's old-fashioned. You look at the hats those girls are wearing, who've just come in—flat, bunchy things, with flowers under the brim. That's ...
— The Master Mummer • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... hold them to be their equals, deceive them, and speedily despise them. It is otherwise with the ugly man, who, in consequence of his homeliness, must work his wits and take pains with himself, and become as pleasing as he is capable of being, till women forget his ape's face, bird's legs, and bunchy back. ...
— Vikram and the Vampire • Sir Richard F. Burton

... pistol. But all this, though discomposing, was no more than I had begun to expect. What really startled me, as old Jenkins lit the candles, was the sight of two women standing a few paces off, beneath a tall picture of a gentleman with a big lace collar. One of them, a short woman with a bunchy shape, I recognised for the housekeeper. The other I guessed as quickly to be Sir Harry's daughter, Mistress Kate—a tall and slender young lady, dark-haired, and handsome as any man could wish. She was wrapped in a long travelling-cloak, ...
— Wandering Heath • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch



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