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Have fun with a new word each day. I'll choose a word. You make up a meaning.
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How to Play:
1. I choose an obscure dictionary word.
2. You invent a wacky meaning and add it as a comment.
3. After a certain time I list the true meaning and choose a winner for the invented meaning.
There are no prizes, just lots of fun!
Remember, children use this site too.
2. You invent a wacky meaning and add it as a comment.
3. After a certain time I list the true meaning and choose a winner for the invented meaning.
There are no prizes, just lots of fun!
Remember, children use this site too.
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- Word Imp
- I am a children's author who has had a handful of books published by trade publishers. They're in book shops and libraries. I've also had a sackful of books published by educational publishers. These are mainly found in schools. I love words and that's why I invented this blog site.
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13 comments:
Bunco (sl. usu. British) - rubbish, tat. Buncos - underpants.
Bunco was the trademark of the British Underwear Company, who were very popular post-war when rationing was still around ("Bunco makes a yard go further"). However in the 90s a rival's "Don't B Uncool" campaign spelt the end of the brand.
Bunco - A little known TV series titled 'Sgt. Bunco' was the forerunner to Startrek. The general theme was based on the starship Baxter where Sgt. Bunco and characters such as Private Doberman and Mr Spick were involved in scams trying to make money out of aliens in space.
A bunco is an ingenious device to hide the fact that one has a bunion. It was invented in the early 1900s when women started to break away from the Victorian mode of dress and wear shorter skirts. Many of them had really ugly feet, hence the bunco. It was quickly followed by the invention of the hamco for hammer toes.
I'm afraid your ingenuity is slipping, Word Imp, this one is all too obvious. It's the popular name of a former Lancashire company that made buns - the Great Lancashire Bun Co. Ltd. Like many local enterprises it went bust after after the ascent of the supermarkets.
Bunco! is a family-friendly interjective you can use when someone says something particularly unbelievable.
Bunco is Italian slang used by the Mafia. Bunco means to disappear for awhile, especially when either the police or a rival gang are on their tail.
Giavanni did a bunco until Lorenzo had calmed down and forgotton about the double dealing with the Fiat 500.
A 'bunco' is any soft toy used in Sunday School as a visual aid to the teaching bible stories, parables, general morals etc. These will typically be bunnies or bears and are stored in the Bunco-box.
They are particularly useful for demonstrating what may happen to a child if they continually flout Sunday School rules. For example, a bunco may be sent to bunco-hell (a flame coloured box) until playtime, or may spend the rest of the morning on the end of a 3 pronged fork.
Aside from the bunco squad on Dragnet and Buncombe County in North Caroline, I will need to think of something original.
Here goes. A bunco is a bank for counterfeit money. Bunco loan officers are notoriously easy touches. It's as if they just print the money.
Bunco is the name of the bunny on the Nesquik ads.
Bunco (v)- to drive one to the verge of insanity, perhaps even past it.
i.e. The tale persists that Chinese water torture will bunco many, but I think endless singing of "It's A Small World" works much better.
To bunco (vb) is to bounce up and down on the bed as if it were a trampoline, a popular hobby of children everywhere. A large range of jumps can be performed, depending on the quality of the matress and how quickly it takes the responsible adult in the house to discover what's been going on.
Bunco is a slang term for bunker, meaning fortified underground shelter. The term became popular because of a World War II song that went:
Merrily, merrily, merrily we go,
Into the bun-co!
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
http://stephen-has-spoken.blogspot.com/
To 'Bunco'(vb) is to trick the teacher and bunk classes in High School or college and go for movies or have fun.
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