Timeline for Is 'bunch' meaning 'protuberance, swelling' used in British English?
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| Mar 8 at 15:27 | comment | added | Barmar | @muru The etymonline entry for "hunch" suggests that it may be the other way around. This use of "bunch" is older. | |
| Mar 8 at 12:24 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @Laurel I think the meaning was that we can’t label it a usage that arose in and is particular to US English. It may have fallen out of use elsewhere, but it is not a US invention. | |
| Mar 8 at 9:04 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | Thank you, folks. It looks as though it is one of those 'old-fashioned' expressions that O'Brian used in his historical novels. | |
| Mar 8 at 9:01 | vote | accept | Kate Bunting | ||
| Mar 8 at 8:21 | history | edited | Andrew Leach♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 8 at 4:21 | comment | added | muru | " a hump on the back (of a human being..." .. I wonder if this was the result of a typo or other confusion with hunch (like in hunchback) | |
| Mar 7 at 21:16 | comment | added | LPH | "Now rare" is the usage label in the SOED (no precision as to a particular variety of the language). | |
| Mar 7 at 20:02 | comment | added | Laurel♦ | "Since it’s been around since c1325, I don’t think we can label it American English". Not true; it could go either way, since American English has a number of relics that have dropped out of usage in modern British English. You have to look at usage, not etymology. | |
| Mar 7 at 19:30 | history | edited | Tinfoil Hat | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 7 at 19:29 | comment | added | Weather Vane | Online Etymology Dictionary has this meaning. | |
| Mar 7 at 19:27 | history | answered | Tinfoil Hat | CC BY-SA 4.0 |