Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Extra profit; bonus: used as an exclamation by boys. The cry “Bunce!” when something is found by another gives the right to half of what is discovered.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a sudden unexpected piece of good fortune.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)
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Examples
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For jam today, aside from tax bunce, is there other big money for Broon in them there flood plains?
Gollum Brown Saved From Drowning by BBC Newmania 2007
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We know that this runaway development across England provides some nice tax bunce for Broon which can be transferred to nulab voting communities elsewhere.
Gollum Brown Saved From Drowning by BBC Newmania 2007
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Like Bloody Sunday, another multi-million pounds of wasted time and bunce for the shysters.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Like Bloody Sunday, another multi-million pounds of wasted time and bunce for the shysters.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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While the rest of us struggle to the age of 70 or beyond for our meagre £4,081 state pension, he can draw down his £60,000 a year commission pension, plus all the other bunce he's managed to pick up on the way.
Hard life being a failure Richard 2004
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“Mary and Joseph, are you always so free with your bunce?”
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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“Mary and Joseph, are you always so free with your bunce?”
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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After this speech he wor sewer to get a shillin ', an sometimes hauf-a-craan, an as he nivver reckoned owt off his doctor's bill, he called that "extra bunce."
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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What a bunce of self-righteous hypocrites we have running this country.
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Putting Donny in place of LFC means less bunce from
BBC Ouch! Blog BBC Sport 2010
knitandpurl commented on the word bunce
"Lacking all scruples (and proud of it), he is incorruptible. He will pocket the bunce, but it won't sugar his report."
London Orbital by Iain Sinclair, p 429 of the Penguin paperback edition
February 10, 2012