Meanings
plural wunches
- UKcollectivederogatoryhumorousA group of unpleasant people, especially bankers.
Well fuck me sideways with a wooden stake, I realize dismally, I've fallen in a wunch of vampires.
2014, Charles Stross, The Rhesus Chart, Penguin, →ISBN4 more examples
Today, we learn that Douglas Hurd, in a couple of months' time, is set to join those providers of financial services, collectively known as a "wunch of bankers", NatWest, from a bunch of MPs.
1995, Trades Union Congress, Report of Annual Trades Union CongressThat particular wunch of bankers may be mortified to know that Hamm had no connection any company called Dow, and was rather one of a group of anti-capitalist pranksters accidentally invited to the conference.
2005 August 17, “Feedback”, in New ScientistApparently, I also removed my shirt as if performing a malcoordinated strip routine and then introduced bemused spectators to a dance move that was out of place when first revealed at university and was certainly not appropriate at a reasonably formal party surrounded by a wunch of bankers.
2010, Geraint Anderson, Cityboy: Beer and Loathing in the Square Mile, Hachette UK, →ISBNMeanwhile in the more conventional 'Men Seeking Women' column [of the Financial Times], the guys go to great lengths to make themselves sound utterly loathsome. They're tall and muscular, exceptionally handsome and attractive, loyal, sincere, genuine, sensitive, educated, rich and modest. What a wunch!
2011, Andrew Hicks, My Thai Girl and I: How I found a new life in Thailand, Monsoon Books, →ISBN
Origin
Spoonerism by transposing the first letters of bunch of wankers to produce the phrase wunch of bankers.
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