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Bunteresque

Bunteresque adjective: obese.

Adjective

Bunteresque (comparative more Bunteresque, superlative most Bunteresque)

  1. (UK) Obese.
    • The intelligence product from this series of meetings between the Bunteresque MI5 man and Gutteridge was speedily disseminated throughout Whitehall.1993, John Sweeney, Trading with the enemy: how Britain armed Iraq, →ISBN, page 44
    • I drew a mushroom cloud; a man holding up a severed head next to a guillotine; an apple with an arrow through it; a rather Bunteresque schoolboy, braces emphasising his girth, reaching out towards a giant icecream cone; and a bus heading for a tunnel in a hillside.2007, Christopher Brookmyre, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, →ISBN

Forms of Bunteresque

comparativemore Bunteresque
superlativemost Bunteresque

Origin of Bunteresque

From Billy Bunter, a fictional greedy schoolboy in the Magnet comic created by Frank Richards (Charles Hamilton).

Questions about Bunteresque

What does Bunteresque mean?
Bunteresque means obese.
What part of speech is Bunteresque?
Bunteresque is an adjective.

Words near Bunteresque in the dictionary

  1. Bunte
  2. bunted
  3. Bunten
  4. Buntens
  5. bunter
  6. Bunteresque
  7. bunters
  8. Buntes
  9. Buntești
  10. Buntin
  11. buntine

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