2007-09-13 10:02:53 · 4 answers · asked by TOM B 1 in Sports ➔ Baseball
[Origin: 1760–70; originally British dialect (Central and Southern England): push, strike; of obscure origin]
Verb - (of a goat or calf) to push with the horns or head; butt.
2007-09-13 10:17:59 · answer #1 · answered by pricehillsaint 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's either a corrupted form of the word "butt" (as in "butting heads") or taken from railroad slang, where "bunt" was a word used to describe the nudging of freight cars to get them moving.
2007-09-13 10:43:26 · answer #2 · answered by JerH1 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It was first used by Dickey Pearce of the Brooklyn Atlantics in 1866.
2007-09-13 10:20:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is a rhyme..
Drop the B add the C...
Those are the types of players who bunt, so they named it that! Truth!
2007-09-13 10:30:35 · answer #4 · answered by jmf 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋