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Bunchy   /bˈəntʃi/   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.






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"Bunchy" Quotes from Famous Books



... strange sea and unlovely sky. At noon, the Rochambeau began at a good speed her journey up the river, passing tile-roofed villages and towns built of pumice-gray stone, and great flat islands covered with acres upon acres of leafy, bunchy vines. There was a scurry to the rail; some one cried, "Voila des Boches," and I saw working in a vineyard half a dozen men in gray-green German regimentals. A poilu in a red cap was standing nonchalantly beside them. ...
— A Volunteer Poilu • Henry Sheahan

... we quite came to them; great bunchy black humps of night; but they seemed to kneel like docile elephants as we drew near, to let Apollo mount upon their backs. We passed lovely old cottages, which in the strange white light of our Bleriots looked flat, as stage scenery, against that wide-stretched "back-cloth" of inky velvet. ...
— Set in Silver • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson

... calf considerably in advance, to defend the house from violation. Toward the curricle they directed what should have been a bow, but was a nod. Their joint attention was then given to the donkey-cart, in which old Tom Cogglesby sat alone, bunchy in figure, bunched in face, his shrewd grey eyes twinkling under the bush ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... she began to walk, that she was bare-legged and bunchy about the skirts like the other girls, and that her head was covered with a sun-hat like theirs, a tanned Panama straw, light as a feather, and shading her eyes from the glare of sea and sand. The sun was very hot and the sand was warm ...
— The Happy Adventurers • Lydia Miller Middleton

... belongs to the Folks family, but, bless us, his rig! Imagine, if you can, a black object, with a great bunchy machine of a head, and for the rest, a mass of fixtures, such as would puzzle a far more stupid creature than a Dolphin ...
— Lord Dolphin • Harriet A. Cheever


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