| 单词 | bunce |
| 释义 | bunce slang.|bʌns|
[Of unknown origin: it has been plausibly conjectured to be a corruption of bonus. On the other hand, the modern variant bunts is treated as a plural of bunt (q.v.), but the latter may be an erroneous form.]
Money; gains; extra profit or gain, bonus; something to the good.
1719D'Urfey Pills 278 If Cards came no better..Oh! oh! I shall lose all my Buns. 1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Bunce, money. 1851[see bunt n.7]. 1865Morning Star 27 Jan. [Witness said] That there were 100 bags of rice..removed after the fire..and that they were ‘bunce’. [Explained as ‘overs for the firm’.] 1879Jamieson, Bunce. An exclamation used by boys at the High School of Edinburgh. When one finds anything, he who cries Bunce! has a claim to the half of it. Stick up for your bunce, ‘stand to it, claim your dividend’. 1880Antrim & Down Gloss. (E.D.S.) Bunce, a consideration in the way of commission given to persons who bring together buyer and seller at a flax market. Perhaps a corruption of bonus. 1962Guardian 19 Nov. 7/5 You make your ‘bunce’ (big profit) in the summer. 1968C. Drummond Death & Leaping Ladies viii. 194 They take the place for a fee and pocket any bunce. |
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