- a variation of bunko.
bunco
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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
By nightfall, there was just one activity left on the agenda: a game of bunco.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2021
“It’s a full-time bed and breakfast, but we also host weddings, showers, parties, receptions, bunco groups, bridge groups and Sunday school classes,” Lynn said.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 19, 2020
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
"We'd been talking of a bunco game when you came up."
From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
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
You ought to see the buncoed gentleman's daughter he brought along.
From Cabbages and Kings by Henry, O.
I've been buncoed by a lot of cheap firemen, an' don't count on holdin' my tongue.
From An Amateur Fireman by Otis, James
The head of the news bureau, having taken the contract to lay out and carry through the deceptive part of the scheme by which the people are to be buncoed, now begins operations.
From Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated by Lawson, Thomas William
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
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
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.
