chunder

Example Sentences

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“They make me want to chunder. Give me real people. Give me people who can move their faces. Give me people that have views and opinions.”

From Washington Times

Its most fully imagined characters are conspicuously all non-English and ethnically and religiously diverse: the Irish Catholic hero, the Pathan horse-dealer Mahbub Ali, an elderly upper-class lady from the North-West provinces, the Bengali spy Hurree Chunder Mookerjee and, not least, a Tibetan lama.

From Washington Post

By 1901, Romesh Chunder Dutt, another leading nationalist, enumerated 10 mass famines since the 1860s, setting the total death toll at a whopping 15 million.

From BBC

Twenty volunteers were placed in a "chunder chair" which is like a twisted fairground ride that spins someone round at an angle.

From BBC

Stuart from Orpington suggests an alternative theory, quoting the Oxford Dictionaries: "1950s, probably from rhyming slang Chunder Loo 'spew', from the name of a cartoon character Chunder Loo of Akim Foo, who appeared in advertisements for Cobra boot polish in the Sydney Bulletin in the early 20th Century."

From BBC