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- verb Present participle of
bunco .
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Examples
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MORAL: When buncoing a Relative always be sure that the Knock-Out
People You Know George Ade 1905
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I looked at this farmer, the little devices I had in my pocket for buncoing the pushed-back brows seemed as hopeless as trying to shake down the Beef Trust with a mittimus and a parlor rifle.
The Gentle Grafter O. Henry 1886
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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.
Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason Corner Folks Charles Felton Pidgin 1883
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"Hyperbole aside," says I, "do you know of any immediate system of buncoing the community out of a dollar or two except by applying to the
Strictly business: more stories of the four million O. Henry 1886
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[Illustration: "'Can ye do it, gents?' he asks."] "I see that Andy is superimposed with his old hankering for the oral and polyglot system of buncoing.
The Gentle Grafter O. Henry 1886
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