Billy Bunter
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English
Proper noun
- A fictional fat boy with round spectacles in Charles Hamilton's stories set at Greyfriars School.
- 1989, Piers Paul Read, A Season in the West:
- He looked up through his thick Billy Bunter spectacles and seeing a young man standing behind Laura handed him his empty plate […]
- 2005, Jon Carter, South American Detox:
- Actually he wasn't too bad except he had a green army style hat on, which made him look completely ridiculous; a bit like Billy Bunter in the army.
Noun
Billy Bunter (plural Billy Bunters)
- (British) A fat boy.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A punter (in a betting shop etc.).
Quotations
- 2004, J. J. Connolly, Layer Cake:
- She tells the Billy Bunter to take it home and— he mimics a bird — "totally cleanse it, use some extra strong bleach on its, you know, working parts"
- 2004, Ray Puxley, Britslang: an uncensored A-Z of the people's language:
- Billy Bunter a) Punter An old bookmaker's term based on the most famous fat boy