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(UK, Ireland, regional) A bonus; additional pay; money. quotations examples
To steal a housewife's purse might mean that her children would have to go hungry; but what of that, if the flash young “dip” could gain admiration from his mates by boasting that he had “frisked a judy's cly and lifted a skinful of bunce”?
1959, Frank Clune, Murders on Maunga-tapu, page 10
third-person singular simple present bunces, present participle buncing, simple past and past participle bunced
(transitive, slang, archaic) To obtain money from, by trickery. quotations
In brief, you gentlemen who have been contributing to Charles Davis' salary have been bunced cleverly — if not cleverly, then completely. He has done less for more money than any other employe[sic] in the city.
1832, Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court, page 141