bunkie
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bunkie
Example Sentences
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I wondered if my bunkie really was innocent.
From Slate ● May 2, 2024
I thought about my old bunkie, the square with the SBS case, and I wondered about the pecking order part of prison, if other prisoners ostracized and judged Tom like I did my bunkie.
From Slate ● May 2, 2024
I would have talked to Vlad the Impaler if he were my bunkie.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2018
He liked Abe's bunkie, the boy Sanders, who was from Maine, while Abe was a Westerner—the lineal descendant in frame, cast of mind, and character of the border backwoodsman of the Revolution.
From Crittenden A Kentucky Story of Love and War by John Fox
One of the men told how his bunkie at Base Six in Bordeaux had died of heart failure when under ether.
From Tutors' Lane by W. S. (Wilmarth Sheldon) Lewis
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