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Bunching
- verb - form into a bunch; "The frightened children bunched together in the corner of the classroom"
- gather or cause to gather into a cluster; "She bunched her fingers into a fist"
Buncoing
- verb - deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"
Bundling
- verb - a onetime custom during courtship of unmarried couples occupying the same bed without undressing
- compress into a wad; "wad paper into the box"
- gather or cause to gather into a cluster; "She bunched her fingers into a fist"
- make into a bundle; "he bundled up his few possessions"
- sleep fully clothed in the same bed with one's betrothed
- the act of binding something into a bundle
- the act of shoving hastily; "she complained about bundling the children off to school"
Bungling
- verb - lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands; "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance"; "ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
- showing lack of skill or aptitude;
- spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly; "I bungled it!"
Buntline
- - One of the ropes toggled to the footrope of a sail, used to haul up to the yard the body of the sail when taking it in.
Bur Fish
- - A spinose, plectognath fish of the Allantic coast of the United States (esp. Chilo mycterus geometricus) having the power of distending its body with water or air, so as to resemble a chestnut bur; -- called also ball fish, balloon fish, and swellfish.
Burbling
- verb - flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise; "babbling brooks"
- uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm; "a novel told in burbly panting tones"
Burgling
- verb - commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling
Burinist
- - One who works with the burin.
Burnside
- noun - facial hair that has grown down the side of a man's face in front of the ears (especially when the rest of the beard is shaved off)
- United States general in the American Civil War who was defeated by Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Fredericksburg (1824-1881)