单词 | bunce |
释义 | buncen. slang. Money; gains; extra profit or gain, bonus; something to the good. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun] earningeOE issuea1325 lucrec1380 lucre of gainc1386 return1419 feracityc1420 revenue1427 vantagec1430 afframing1440 revenue1440 availc1449 proventc1451 provenuec1487 rent1513 fardel1523 chevisance1535 gains1546 commodity1577 proceed1578 increasal1601 benefit1606 endowment1615 gaininga1631 superlucration1683 profit1697 bunce1706 making1837 bunt1851 plunder1851 yield1877 recovery1931 earner1970 1706 in H. Playford Wit & Mirth (new ed.) IV. 55 If Cards came no better..oh! oh! I shall lose all my Buns. 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 160 Bunce, money. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 33/2 ‘Boys’ deputed to sell a man's goods for a certain sum, all over that amount being the boys' profit or ‘bunts’ [on p. 470 spelt bunse]. 1865 Morning 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’.] 1879 Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (new ed.) 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’. 1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down 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. 1962 Guardian 19 Nov. 7/5 You make your ‘bunce’ (big profit) in the summer. 1968 C. Drummond Death & Leaping Ladies viii. 194 They take the place for a fee and pocket any bunce. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1706 |
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