Apr 19, 2016 · A bunt in baseball is a gentle tap of the ball that causes the opposing team to scramble from their usual positions (catcher and pitcher in particular). Its goal is to get the hitter to a single …

Oct 1, 2016 · The Oxford English Dictionary defines a bun-fight as: a jocular expression for a tea-party The OED gives a single quote, from 1928, which uses the words wayzgoose and Eisteddfod and is …

Jun 14, 2023 · A 'blunt' statement is when someone says things to the point and factual. But wouldn't 'sharp' (or some other word that implies frankness or sharpness) be a better word than 'blunt'? As …

May 17, 2015 · For example, “On the bunt the pitcher used his meat hand instead of gloving the ball to get the out at first.” For a third baseman someone would just say that he “palmed the ball to get the …

Aug 8, 2015 · The full OED says this sense of bunt is "chiefly dialectal*. Their first citation is an 1825 glossary of Wiltshire dialect saying it means to strike with the head, and their most recent is an 1875 …

Oct 20, 2014 · Yes, majoritively is a word. As one of our resident professional linguists so succinctly put it: If you use the word when speaking English, then it is an English word. Now that that’s out of the …

Just got into a debate at work whether comprehendible is a word. It appears as I type this that comprehensible is preferred in Firefox's dictionary. However, when I used Outlook's spellchecker it

Jan 20, 2023 · John's awesomesauce weekend in Vegas ended prematurely. And he prayed with such authority that my prayers felt like weak sauce by comparison. How did the words awesomesauce and …

Nov 16, 2019 · I am writing a scene from Macbeth detailing the battle before the play for my 11th-grade English class, and I decided to write it in Shakespearean for fun. I have been trying to figure out the …

Jan 26, 2011 · I hear "dayta" more often, but what's the correct pronunciation?