boncen.
/bɒns/, U.S. /bɑns/ 1.
a. A large marble for playing with.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > marbles > [noun] > marble > types of
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1862 Young Eng. 1 141 One boy pitches his bonce, and another tries to strike it, each throwing by turns.
b. A game played with such marbles.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > marbles > [noun] > type of game
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1862 Young Eng. 1 141 Bonce is played with very large marbles.
1865 F. Furnivall in Reader No. 146. 420/3 Little boys playing at bonce.
2. The head. slang.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > [noun]
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1889 in A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang 158/1.
1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 42/1 Look out, or I'll fetch you a whack across the bonse.
1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren ix. 155 Children go in for short sharp words, as..‘bonce’, ‘block’, and ‘dome’ for head.
1962 L. Deighton Ipcress File xv. 91 This threat..[is] going to be forever hanging over your bonce like Damocles' chopper.
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