bunce

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noun

A bonus; additional pay; money.

UncommonScrabble 9

Meanings

bunce1

nounbunce (uncountable)
  1. IrelandUKregionaluncountableA 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”?

    1959, Frank Clune, Murders on Maunga-tapu, page 10
verbbunce (third-person singular simple present bunces, present participle buncing, simple past and past participle bunced)

present singular third person bunces · participle present buncing · participle past bunced · past bunced

  1. archaicslangtransitiveTo 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.

    1832, Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court, page 141

Bunce2

proper nounBunce (plural Bunces)

plural Bunces

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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APA

bunce. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bunce

MLA

“bunce.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bunce. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bunce,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bunce.

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