bunco

How To Use bunco In A Sentence

• I then buncoed the engineer of an English tramp steamer into selling me a 25-pound chunk of imported metal made by Mr. Babbitt himself and stamped with his name and coat of arms - but that lot didn't last long and I couldn't get any more of it.
• After the expenditure of the enormous sum of five hundred dollars (and we think the present day graduate who spent ten thousand dollars for a no better education has been badly buncoed), and twelve months of our valuable time, on March 25th 1885, we were turned loose on an unsuspecting public, a full fledged obstetrician.
• The contending parties had scarce time to realise what was being done when the deed was completed, and a wild cheer burst from the townspeople, high above which there sounded a terrific "hooroo!" and next instant, Larry O'Hale, followed by Bunco, shot from the barricades, and charged the foe! Lost in the Forest Wandering Will's Adventures in South America
• Because the producers hired police bunco squad members as consultants, the movie shows us all the nuts and bolts of the sorts of scams that can be run in a tent-revival format.
• No wonder he hates what he calls destructive criticism, sometimes called by free spirits the elimination of buncombe. Public Opinion
• The conduct of Mr. Springborn's department was always a matter of pride with the administration, and great was the consternation of his friends when the newspapers told a story one morning of how Mr. Springborn had been buncoed.
• What a great deal of "buncombe" the American populace will bear! Echoes of the Week
• 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.
• ‘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 Salvation Army or having a fit on Miss Helen Gould's doorsteps?’
• It must be remembered, however, that the Americans of both parties in the North are more in the habit of "speaking daggers" at each other than of using them; and that, perhaps, all this loud talking is but the bark of a dog that will not bite -- mere "buncombe," intended for present effect. The Presidential Contest in America