bunce
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Bunce¹
Rhymes with -ʌns
proper noun Bunces
- A surname.
bunce²
Rhymes with -ʌns
Where it comes from
Costermonger jargon bunts, perhaps from bonus.
noun
- A bonus; additional pay; money. To steal a housewife's purse might mean that her children would have to go hungry; but what of that, if the flash young “dip” could gain admiration from his mates by boasting that he had “frisked a judy's cly and lifted a skinful of bunce”?
verb bunces · buncing · bunced
- To obtain money from, by trickery. In brief, you gentlemen who have been contributing to Charles Davis' salary have been bunced cleverly — if not cleverly, then completely. He has done less for more money than any other employe^([sic]) in the city.
Talk about this word "bunce." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/bunce. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. bunce. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/bunce "bunce." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/bunce.
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@misc{bunce_2026,
title = {bunce},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bunce},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
