Bŭnt'er, n.

n. [Cf. O. Eng. bunt, a mushroom, the common puff-ball; Scot., the tail or brush of a hare or rabbit; Gael. & Ir. bundun, the fundament.] A woman who picks up rags in the streets; hence, a low, vulgar woman. [Cant.] Her two marriageable daughters, like bunters in stuff gowns, are now taking sixpenny worth of tea at the White Conduit-house. Goldsmith.