单词 | bunter |
释义 | † buntern.1 Obsolete exc. dialect. ‘A cant word for a woman who picks up rags about the street; and used, by way of contempt, for any low vulgar woman’ (Johnson). (Also see quots.) Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > refuse disposal > [noun] > rag-collecting or dust-heap picking > one who kennel-raker1570 finder1607 rag-raker1631 rag-picker1680 bunter1706 rake-kennel1707 rag collector1820 rag gatherer1851 chiffonier1856 gutter-snipe1869 picker1884 tatter1890 totter1891 dumpster diver1985 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [noun] > person of the lowest class > woman customer1583 bulker1673 bunter1706 poissarde1791 1706 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus II. ii. 25 Punks, Strolers, Market Dames, and Bunters. 1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Bunter, a gatherer of Rags in the Streets for the making of Paper. 1758 Monthly Rev. 19 184 A nasty bunter or stinking dirty fish drab. 1759 H. Walpole Par. Register in A. Dobson Fielding v. 118 There Fielding met his bunter muse. 1763 Brit. Mag. 4 542 I heard a bunter at the Horse-guards last Friday evening swear she would not venture into the Park. 1819 Abeillard & Hel. 344 Complete fox-hunters and much addicted to the bunters. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 142/1 Old women alone gathered the substance [sc. dogs' dung], and they were known by the name of ‘bunters’, which signifies properly gatherers of rags. 1862 B. Hemyng in H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) Extra vol. 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. 1891 C. Wordsworth Rutland Words 5 Bunter, a disreputable woman. ‘She stood at the gate and called me a bunter.’ This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). buntern.2 Geology. = New Red Sandstone n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > stratigraphic units > [noun] > secondary or Mesozoic > Triassic > specific red marl1625 Muschelkalk1824 poecilite1832 keuper1844 bunter1874 Karoo beds1876 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (1850) xiii. 187 The Muschelkalk, Keuper, and Bunter Sandstein.] 1874 C. Lyell Elem. Geol. (1885) xxii. 331 The basement beds of the Keuper rest with a slight unconformability, upon an eroded surface of the Bunter. 1881 J. E. Lee Note-bk. Amateur Geol. 72 The bone-bed has evidently filled cracks or hollows in the ‘bunter’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2022). buntern.3 dialect. Categories » ‘An old-fashioned machine for cleaning corn.’ Parish Sussex Dial. 1875. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.11706n.21874n.3 |
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