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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II). Includes material from the 1976 and 2005 supplements.
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†BUNCE, n., int. and v. Also bunts.
1. n. Share, profit.Edb. 1825 Jam.2:
Stick up for your bunce; “stand to it, claim your dividend.”
2. int. “An exclamation used by boys at the High School of Edinburgh. When one finds any thing, he who cries Bunce! has a claim to the half of it” (Ib.).Edb. 2004:
We found a boax o chocolate bars an Ah goat ma bunce o it.
3. v. To club together, to go shares with, to divide equally (Edb. 1967).Edb. 1906 V. Spiganovicz Night Life 9:
Aye, we'll bunts the pairk.
