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Possibly from dialect bunting(“sifting flour”), from Middle Englishbonten(“to sift”), hence the material used for that purpose.
Possibly from Germanic bundt(“to bind or tie together”).
1922,[2] apparently from Scotsbuntin(“plump, short and thick (esp. of children)”),[3][4] itself an old term of endearment for children (1660s); the sense “plump” dates to the 1500s,[3] and may be related to bunt(“belly of a sail”). Possibly related to butt(“(both noun and verb sense: buttocks; strike with head)”)[3] or to bunny(“rabbit”). Compare with the nursery rhyme Bye, baby Bunting (1731), either of same origin or influenced this sense.[5]