How To Use Bunco In A Sentence
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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No wonder he hates what he calls destructive criticism, sometimes called by free spirits the elimination of buncombe.
Public Opinion
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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.
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What a great deal of "buncombe" the American populace will bear!
Echoes of the Week
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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.
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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 Salvation Army or having a fit on Miss Helen Gould's doorsteps?’
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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
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It is the purest kind of buncombe for any man to say that democracy is the millenium, just as it is lunacy for the Bolshevist to say that to introduce his system would introduce the millenium.
Democracy or Bolshevism
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I never have and never will resort to 'buncombe' for the purpose of securing my own advancement.
Forty-Six Years in the Army
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But it's not just bunco artists who are suffering from this tightening of the purse strings.
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But it wasn't the night of hoochie-coochie that Coach Eric had hoped for-nope, Tami wanted to whoop it up with some teacher-pals playing Bunco.
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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They were not buncoed, and that water power would be worth many times what the investment was.
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I never mingle with the crowds that are being buncoed [sic] in the big department stores of Los Angeles.
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The propaganda machine is in reverse and if the BADM had its way the public would never find out that all the hoopla over Mononykus was just a lot of buncombe about a weird dinosaur.
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Not until then did it begin to be clear to me that the great mass of people gathered at Whatcom, as well as myself had been buncoed.
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But to an intelligent worker such sermons sound like capitalistic propaganda, upon which he is constantly being fed by every labor-exploiting concern in the country, and quite naturally he tries to avoid getting an extra dose of the same kind of buncombe on Sunday ....
The Necessity of Atheism
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Five thousand for a claim on that damned moose-pasture is bunco.
Chapter XI
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The St. Regis tribe of Indians of Franklin County claim that they were buncoed by the last legislature, and are so incensed that an outbreak at the reservation is feared.
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What is the origin of the term "buncombe" as popularly used?
Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader
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Buncombe has purchased a complete outfit of machinery, and has begun to macadamize.
North Carolina and its Resources.
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Buncombe was delighted to encounter a sea-faring friend, and insisted on taking George Jernam down to River View Cottage to eat what he called a homely bit of dinner.
Run to Earth A Novel
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The profiteers are very resourceful in buncoing Mr. Block.
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Specially after I poked around and learned the Madame's qualifications for horoscope-readings consist of 19 convictions for fraud, bunco scams, and operating illegal ‘games of chance’ in Atlantic City.
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Neither General Kearney nor Mason had much respect for this land of "buncombe," but assumed the true doctrine that
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals
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I just can't stay in the room and see you buncoed that way.
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They were from all over the map -- "complete hooey" from _Minority Report_, "buncombe" from _The New Republic_, "as truthful as Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound" from an article on pedagogy in the _Sun_.
Asimov's Science Fiction
