bonce
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of bonce
First recorded in 1885–90; origin unknown
Example Sentences
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"Why paint a boiled egg at Easter when you can paint mum's bald bonce?"
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2016
It's like Medusa's beserpented bonce, only more painful, less picturesque and more likely to report directly to a major international media organisation.
From The Guardian • Feb. 8, 2013
Take Simon Paisley Day's icily exact Malvolio, who walks as if he were skating, and whose head lies so still on his ruff that it could be a severed bonce on a platter.
From The Guardian • Jan. 23, 2011
The focus and occasion of Dinger's social rise and moral downfall is Rex Boone, a "bozzle bonce," meaning a chap who is handicapped by intelligence, good manners and a U-type accent.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I'm afraid our 'Enery will 'ave to 'it 'im over the bonce with Bow bells to beat 'im," admitted one Londoner.
From Time Magazine Archive
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