Bunteresque

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

Bunteresque (comparative more Bunteresque, superlative most Bunteresque)

1. (UK) Obese.
   • 1993, John Sweeney, Trading with the enemy: how Britain armed Iraq, →ISBN, page 44:

     The intelligence product from this series of meetings between the Bunteresque MI5 man and Gutteridge was speedily disseminated throughout Whitehall.

   • 2007, Christopher Brookmyre, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2014, Kevin Sampson, The Killing Pool, →ISBN, page 101:

     I exchange pleasantries with the old history buff on the till and spend a fascinating hour or so on the official tour of the house itself, marvelling at the Bunteresque enormity of a former earl's pantaloons; but when it comes to the guided walk around the grounds and gardens, I slip away to the riverfront path and, I don't mind admitting it, thoroughly enjoy my extensive ramble right along the western straits, almost as far as Newborough Warren itself.