bunco

1. 1.

   deprive of by deceit

   “He swindled me out of my inheritance”

   “She defrauded the customers who trusted her”

   Synonymsvictimizeswindlerookgoldbricknobblediddledefraudscammulcthornswoggleshort-changecon

   Broadercheat

   Narrowershort-change

Other forms of bunco

plural

buncoes·

past tense

buncoed·

present participle

buncoing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bunco

What does bunco mean?

bunco means "a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bunco?

bunco has 2 syllables and divides as bun-co under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for bunco?

Close synonyms include bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bunco a common word?

bunco is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.