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bunnia

n. (context India English) A merchant or trader.

Usage examples of "bunnia".

The chelas formed a circle around Grim and the old guru, excluding us three and the woman, who took me by the arm and fairly drove Chullunder Ghose along in front of her, he arguing like a pot-bellied bunnia who has lost a lawsuit.

And see, I have tea that I stole from the fattest bunnia in Dera Ghazi Khan--very good stuff indeed, and stewed thoroughly.

I having no jacket, they believed my tale that I was a son of a gardener working for Bunnia Chirol Varma at his house by the waterside.

Brahmins and chumars, bankers and tinkers, barbers and bunnias, pilgrims -and potters - all the world going and coming.