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Billy Bunter|ˌbɪlɪ ˈbʌntə(r)|
The name of a schoolboy in stories written between 1908 and 1961 by ‘Frank Richards’ (Charles Hamilton, 1875–1961), used allusively to indicate fatness, gluttony, clumsiness, etc.
1939L. MacNeice Autumn Jrnl. x. 41 Our little jokes of Billy Bunter dirt. 1959Times 7 Mar. 7/4 ‘It is better for Britain,’ declared an M.P. recently, ‘to have a few more Billy Bunters than the kind of hunger which was caused to many children before milk in schools.’ 1961A. Wilson Old Men at Zoo ii. 72 Strawson, whose fat, self-satisfied Billy Bunter form waddled towards me at that moment. 1966B. Cooper Drown him Deep xviii. 147 The full moon..stared down with a Billy Bunter's curious face. |
