bunkie
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]bunkie (plural bunkies)
- Familiar term of address.
- A bunkmate, someone with which one shares a bunk bed.
- a small cabin with a bunk or bed(s), a free-standing bedroom or sleeping area separate from the main house or cottage, which may or may not have other facilities (a fully outfitted outbuilding with a kitchen or bathroom would be a guest house or accessory dwelling unit and not a bunkie)
- a condescending term of direct address to a man.[1]
- 1978, Superman 206:
- Excuse me, bunkie. Don't you have anything useful to do?
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, Volume 1, A-G by J.E. Lighter, Random House, New York, 1994; https://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/9/messages/362.html