buncoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Reportedly from Spanish banca, a card game.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʌŋkəʊ/
• 韻: -ʌŋkəʊ

名詞

bunco (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 buncos または buncoes)

1. (US, slang) A swindle or confidence trick.
2. (uncountable) A parlour game played in teams with three dice, originating in England but popular among suburban women in the United States at the beginning of the 21st century.
3. A brigand.
   • 1891, “Buncoed”, in Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts‎^[1], W & R Chambers, page 781:

     When they fall into the hands of the Buncoes, they sometimes do; at others, they are merely robbed or held to ransom for a time and then released again.

   • 2014, Gary Tetterington, Rebecca Faith Grossman, editor, Condition Other Than Normal: Finding Peace in a World Gone Mad‎^[2], eBookIt.com, →ISBN:

     Furthermore, he knew of the O.M. and of how the O.M. was the smoking gun and his outrageous guilt was the key to bringing down every one of the underhanded and dishonest buncoes that were running extreme and eopidemic in Edmonton back then.

派生語

• bunco artist
• bunco squad
• bunco-steerer

動詞

bunco (三人称単数 現在形 buncos, 現在分詞 buncoing, 過去形および過去分詞形 buncoed)

1. (transitive, intransitive, US, slang) To swindle (someone).
   • 1910, Erwin Rosen, In the Legion‎^[3], HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2012:

     They felt very sorry (so they said) for the poor old eleventh company having been buncoed into taking such an awful pack of useless recruits.

   • 1930, Jefferis & Nichols, Safe Counsel or Practical Eugenics, page 275:

     "They want a man who will bunko the ignorant patients and get the money."