a. [f. BUNCH sb.1 + -Y1.]
1. Bulging, protuberant; full of protuberances or swellings; humped.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., VII. lxiv. (1495), 280. The nayles ben boystouse and bounche [1582 bounchye] as they were scabbed.
1543. Traheron, Vigo’s Chirurg., I. x. 9. The lyver is hollowe in the inwarde parte … and bounchye wythout.
1562. Phaër, Æneid., IX. C c iv. An vnshapen bunchy speare [rudem nodis hastam].
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts, 76. The fat in their [camels] bunchy back.
1873. Besant & Rice, My Little Girl, II. vi. 80. Augustine, the fat, the bunchy, the smiling.
Mod. Who is that with the bunchy skirts?
2. Like a bunch; having bunches or clusters.
1824. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. I. (1863), 213. So as to hang … in a sort of bunchy festoon.
1833. Tennyson, Poems, 72. Bowers Trellised with bunchy vine.
1852. Rock, Ch. Fathers, III. I. 111. Those leaf-like bunchy finials … seem all too soft and light to be of stone.
