Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II).
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BUNCLE, n. A cluster, mass. [bʌŋkl]w.Dmf. 1925 W. A. Scott in Trans. Dmf. and Gall. Antiq. Soc. 19:
A man was pruning a rose bush trained against the wall of his cottage. A lot of stems were clustered too close together, and he said they had “got into a buncle.”
