- a variation of bunko.
bunco
Americannoun
noun
verb
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Etymology
Origin of bunco
C19: perhaps from Spanish banca bank (in gambling), from Italian banca bank 1
Example Sentences
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I was later informed that each hostess does NOT have the right to set safety protocols for her own home while playing bunco.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2021
The Middle Sister name “evokes powerful emotions” in women said Ms. Wheatley, who further noted that the wines are particularly popular at “baby showers and bunco parties.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2018
In north Alabama, groups organized bra painting parties, art auctions, fashion shows, walks and bunco parties.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 7, 2018
The true story of a Pennsylvania bandleader and well-meaning bunco artist makes for some highly entertaining comedy in writer-director Maya Forbes’ “The Polka King.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2018
I won't bunco my neighbors an' I ain't goin' to 'low you to do it with any proposition I'm interested in.
From Rimrock Trail by Dunn, J. Allan, (Joseph Allan)
In America he is so busy that when he gets abroad he does not know what to do with his time, and in consequence can be easily buncoed.
From Time Magazine Archive
I am of the opinion that irresistible Secretary Price buncoed “Dick” into starting a colt who had no more pretentions to being a Derby horse than honest “Dick” has of being a dude.
From History of the Kentucky Derby, 1875-1921 by O'Connor, John Lawrence
The former owner of the donkey took the stock and the man it came from into court, declaring that the paper was worthless, and that he had been buncoed.
From The Last Spike And Other Railroad Stories by Warman, Cy
"Waal, I dunno as I know just what you mean by buncoed," said the Deacon, "but I kinder think he got the best of both on us on thet point."
From Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks A Picture of New England Home Life by Pidgin, Charles Felton
Speaking of small heads naturally calls to mind a gold brick named Solomon Saunders that I bought when I was a good deal younger and hadn't been buncoed so often.
From Old Gorgon Graham More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son by Lorimer, George Horace
I see that Andy is superimposed with his old hankering for the oral and polyglot system of buncoing.
From The Gentle Grafter by Greening, H. C.
After cheating the poor, buncoing the credulous, and 'cornering' his fellows, he will say he is willing to give it back, for he has no further use for it.
From Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason Corner Folks by Pidgin, Charles Felton
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