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单词 bunce
释义

buncen.

/bʌns/
Etymology: 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 n.7, but the latter may be an inferred singular form.
slang.
Money; gains; extra profit or gain, bonus; something to the good.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun]
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lucrec1380
lucre of gainc1386
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feracityc1420
revenue1427
vantagec1430
afframing1440
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availc1449
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provenuec1487
rent1513
fardel1523
chevisance1535
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benefit1606
endowment1615
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bunce1706
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bunt1851
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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).
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