Bunter

Bunter was a cant word for a woman who picks up rags about the street; and it may seem to later generations that the epithet fitted far more nicely the _bunter muse_ of that "facile retailer of _ana_ and incorrigible society-gossip," that rag-picker of anecdotes, Mr. Horace Walpole himself.

Henry Fielding: a Memoir G. M. Godden

The second extract gets you some distance with the story, the first takes a hundred words to tell you that Bunter is in the detention class.

Boys' Weeklies 1940

Every few lines we are reminded that Harry Wharton & Co. are ‘the Famous Five’, Bunter is always ‘the fat Owl’ or ‘the Owl of the Remove’, Vernon-Smith is always ‘the Bounder of Greyfriars’, Gussy (the Honourable Arthur Augustus D’Arcy) is always ‘the swell of St Jim’s’, and so on and so forth.

Boys' Weeklies 1940

His face, however, aroused no memories in Lord Peter's mind, and that baffled nobleman, calling out Bunter from the newspaper shop, departed to his hotel to get a trunk-call through to Parker.

Whose Body? Dorothy Leigh 1923

Bunter was a cant word for a woman who picks up rags about the street; and it may seem to later generations that the epithet fitted far more nicely the bunter muse of that “facile retailer of ana and incorrigible society-gossip,” that rag-picker of anecdotes,

Henry Fielding A Memoir Godden, G M 1909

He called Bunter, adding, ‘What we want here is a bell.’

Busman's Honeymoon Sayers, Dorothy L. 1937

'Very good, my lord', replied the man called Bunter, raising his voice so as to be heard from the pantry.

The Register 2010

'Very good, my lord', replied the man called Bunter, raising his voice so as to be heard from the pantry.

The Register 2010

'Very good, my lord', replied the man called Bunter, raising his voice so as to be heard from the pantry.

The Register 2010

It will be necessary for my purpose to say briefly that these red rocks have been divided into the "Bunter" and "Keuper"; the lower division, the Bunter, occupying most of the ground about

The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890 Various