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bunter

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A woman who picks up rags in the streets; hence, a low, vulgar woman.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Bunter, a man of many talents himself, not least photography, often proves instrumental in Peter's investigations. Source: Internet

For much of the book he is in Italy (in Germany in the TV adaptation), dealing with a major crisis which for a time seemed to threaten the outbreak of a new European war (as he tells Bunter). Source: Internet

In a brief passage written from Bunter's point of view in Busman's Honeymoon Bunter is seen, even in the privacy of his own mind, to be thinking of his employer as "His Lordship". Source: Internet

In that role, Bunter – sitting at the bedside of the sleeping Wimsey – is seen to mutter affectionately "Bloody little fool!" Source: Internet

The two of them are clearly the best and closest of friends, yet Bunter is invariably punctilious in using "my lord" even when they are alone, and "his lordship" in company. Source: Internet

The Wimsey Papers included a reference to Wimsey and Bunter setting out during the war on a secret mission of espionage in Europe, and provide the ironic epitaph Wimsey writes for himself: Here lies an anachronism in the vague expectation of eternity. Source: Internet

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