Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being bunchy, or of growing in bunches.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or condition of being bunchy; knobbiness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality or condition of being
bunchy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In guy speak, they fit nicer with them - there's less material hanging all over the place and less bunchiness.
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Not only does the bunchiness look funny, but it draws too much attention to the wrongness of the pant, which is turn makes the outfit look effed up, which ... you guessed it ... makes you look like a hot mess when all you're trying to do is wear a damn pair of skinny jeans!
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Well observed and those pannier pockets of the skirt and slightly pegtop effect are devised to suggest bunchiness of hip.
Ulysses 2003
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He picked up a borrowed coat, also much too wide for him, pulled it on over the bunchiness of his shirt, and followed her, swallowing what he knew to be a useless protest.
Ride Proud, Rebel! Andre Norton 1958
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Well observed and those pannier pockets of the skirt and slightly pegtop effect are devised to suggest bunchiness of hip.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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Even the proper cut of a carefully tailored business suit could not conceal a certain bunchiness about the shoulders which had nothing at all in common with office efficiency.
The Plunderer Henry Oyen 1902
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Yet something about the wee figure, a certain round-about bunchiness, and a sort of pulling back from the maid, as she went into the room, recalled vaguely to my heart, rather than to my mind, two little toddling creatures, that far away across the sea I had learnt to love and look for.
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