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▪ I. † bunter1 Obs. exc. dial.|ˈbʌntə(r)|
[Etymology unknown.]
‘A cant word for a woman who picks up rags about the street; and used, by way of contempt, for any low vulgar woman.’ J. (Also see quots.) Also attrib.
1707E. Ward Hud. Rediv. II. ii. ii. (1715) 25 Punks, Strolers, Market Dames, and Bunters. 1721Bailey, Bunter, a gatherer of Rags in the Streets for the making of Paper. 1758Monthly Rev. 184 A nasty bunter or stinking dirty fish drab. 1759H. Walpole Par. Register in A. Dobson Fielding v. 118 There Fielding met his bunter muse. 1763Brit. Mag. IV. 542, I heard a bunter at the Horse-guards last Friday evening swear she would not venture into the Park. 1819Abeillard & Hel. 344 Complete fox-hunters and much addicted to the bunters. a1852Mayhew Lond. Labour (1861) II. 142/1 Old women alone gathered the substance [dogs' dung], and they were known by the name of ‘bunters’, which signifies properly gatherers of rags. 1861Ibid. Extra vol. (1862) 223/1 There is a class of women technically known as ‘bunters’, who take lodgings, and after staying some time run away without paying their rent. 1891C. Wordsworth Rutland Words 5 Bunter, a disreputable woman. ‘She stood at the gate and called me a bunter.’
▪ II. ‖ bunter2 Geol.|ˈbʊntər|
Short for bunter Sandstein, i.e. ‘mottled sandstone’, German name for the New Red Sandstone.
[1830Lyell Princ. Geol. xiii. (1850) 187 The Muschelkalk, Keuper, and Bunter Sandstein.] 1874― Elem. Geol. xxii. (1885) 331 The basement beds of the Keuper rest with a slight unconformability, upon an eroded surface of the Bunter. 1881J. E. Lee Note-bk. Amat. Geol. 72 The bone-bed has evidently filled cracks or hollows in the ‘bunter’.
▪ III. ˈbunter3 dial.
[f. bunt v.3]
‘An old-fashioned machine for cleaning corn.’ Parish Sussex Dial. 1875. |