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n. (context Australian English) echidna

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Bunning is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • David Bunning (b. 1966), federal judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky
  • Erwin Bünning (1906–1990), German biologist
  • James Bunstone Bunning, British architect
  • Jim Bunning (b. 1931), former US Senator from Kentucky, and former Major League Baseball pitcher
  • Walter Bunning (1912–1977), Australian architect

Usage examples of "bunning".

He had never spoken to Bunning, although he had once received a note from him asking him to coffee--a piece of very considerable impertinence.

Might not this idiot of a Bunning have been shown the way to the mystery?

Never, in anything that had happened to him, had Bunning been so terrified as he had been by this visit to Dune.

That trembling ass, Bunning, singing now at the top of his voice, shaking with the fervour of it, let him know that he had brought a murderer to the sacred gathering--again Olva had to concentrate all his mind, his force, his power upon the conquest of his nerves.

He found that most of the men were freshmen whose faces he did not know, but there, moving his fat body uneasily on a chair, was Bunning, and there, to his intense surprise, was Lawrence.

A fortnight ago he would have hated the scene, have sent Bunning, with a cutting word, flying from the room, never to return.

He seized then eagerly on the things that he could conquer--the suspicions of Rupert Craven, the rivalry of Cardillac, the confidences of Bunning, .

As he glanced round at them--at Lawrence, Bunning, Galleon Cardillac--they seemed to have far less existence than the grey shadow in the outer Court.

It was still there, its arm outstretched above the snowy court, but Bunning seemed, in some odd way, to intervene.

In Outer Court, looking now so vast and solemn in the silence of its snow, Bunning, stopping, pointed to the grey buildings that towered over them.

He stopped, wheeled round, caught the table with both hands, and leaned over to Bunning, who stood, his mouth open, his cap and gown still on.

He was not now altogether sure whether Bunning were really there or no.

His spectacles were there, his boots were there, but was Bunning there?

The last words brought him back to Bunning, a person whom he had almost forgotten.

Half-way down the hall there was Bunning, and Olva could see, as he passed up the room, that the man was trembling and was pressing his hands down upon the table to hold his body still.