Definition of Bunnias

1. Noun. (plural of bunnia) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bunnias

1. bunnia [n] - See also: bunnia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bunnias

bunkrooms
bunks
bunkside
bunkum
bunkums
bunky
bunless
bunn
bunnet
bunnets
bunnia
bunniah
bunniahs
bunnian
bunnians
bunnias (current term)
bunnies
bunning
bunnings
bunns
bunny
bunny-hop
bunny boiler
bunny boilers
bunny boot
bunny boots
bunny chow
bunny chows
bunny ears

Literary usage of Bunnias

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Village, Town, and Jungle Life in India by A. C. Newcombe (1905)
"... taken the tickets in order to sell them to the bunnias, who bought the grain at the reduced price and sold it again at their own shops at famine prices. ..."

2. My Three Years in Manipur and Escape from the Recent Mutiny by Ethel St. Clair Grimwood (1891)
"These were chiefly servants, bunnias,* and the many followers who accumulate wherever a regiment goes. I stood for some time watching them tearing away, ..."

3. Kim by Rudyard Kipling (1901)
"... bankers and tinkers, barbers and bunnias, pilgrims and potters — all the world going and coming. It is to me as a river from which I am withdrawn like a ..."

4. Curiosities of Popular Customs and of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances, and by William Shepard Walsh (1897)
"... where Mussulman boat-people get hold of them and sell them later lo the bunnias in the bazaar, whence they come back to us as edibles. ..."

5. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"... Parsees, Chamars, bunnias, Telis — all kinds go there. But my people are dead. I shall take my brother's son back with me to Kimberley, and when he can ..."

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