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bunce

bunce \bunce\ n. a sudden unexpected piece of good fortune.

Syn: windfall, gravy, godsend.

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bunce

n. a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money); "the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed lik an assembly line" [syn: boom, bonanza, gold rush, gravy, godsend, manna from heaven, windfall]

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Bunce

Bunce may refer to:

Bunce (surname)

Bunce is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Alan Bunce, Canadian animator
  • Cameron Bunce, model and actor
  • Che Bunce, New Zealand (All White) soccer player
  • David Bunce, music producer
  • Don Bunce (1949-2003), American quarterback
  • Francis M. Bunce (1836-1901), United States Rear Admiral and civil war veteran
  • Frank Bunce, New Zealand (All Black Rugby union player
  • Fred Bunce, American professional baseball umpire
  • H. C. Bunce, American professional baseball umpire
  • James Bunce (disambiguation)
  • Sir James Bunce, 1st Baronet Bunce (c. 1600–1670)
  • Sir James Bunce, 4th Baronet Bunce (died c. 1710)
  • Sir James Bunce, 6th Baronet Bunce (died 1741)
  • John Patrick Bunce, reality TV star on the show Bering Sea Gold (1985-2012, age 26)
  • Sir John Bunce, 2nd Baronet Bunce (1630–1683)
  • Sir John Bunce, 3rd Baronet Bunce (c. 1659–1687)
  • Sir John Bunce, 5th Baronet Bunce (died c. 1720)
  • Susan Bunce, British Housing Benefits Expert
  • Joseph H. Bunce, Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, USA
  • Josh Bunce (1847-1912), left fielder and umpire
  • John Thackray Bunce (1828–1899), English newspaper editor and author, father of Kate Bunce
  • Kate Bunce (1856-1927), English poet and painter, daughter of John Thackray Bunce
  • Larry Bunce, basketball player
  • Leela Bunce, radio personality
  • Mike Bunce, rugby player
  • Paddy Bunce, sports radio reporter
  • Steve Bunce, British sports journalist specialising in boxing
  • Stuart Bunce, English actor
  • Vikki Bunce, field hockey player
  • William Bunce, English footballer
  • William Bunce (cricketer) (1911-1981)
  • Zephaniah W. Bunce, American businessman and politician
  • Chauncey Bunce Brewster (1848-1941) bishop
Pseudonyms
  • Henry Shapcott Bunce, penname of Shapcott Wensley
Fictional characters
  • Bunce is one of the surnames of hobbits in The Lord of the Rings
    • Mimosa Bunce, married into the Baggins family

Usage examples of "bunce".

Whenever he noticed that, Egremont would pause a little and repeat in simpler form what he had been saying, with the satisfactory result that Bunce showed a clearer face and jotted something on his dirty note-book with his stumpy pencil.

Poor Bunce had darkling throes of mind, but struggled with desperate nervousness and could not be at ease till the straightforward talk began again.

He was obliged to recognise the utter absence of idealism from all save Grail--unless Bunce might be credited with glimmerings of the true light.

On the evening which Egremont spent at Eastbourne, Grail came across Bunce on the way home from the factory.

They resumed a discussion interrupted a day or two before, and, as they passed the end of Newport Street, Bunce asked his companion to enter for the purpose of looking at a certain paper in which he had found what seemed to him cogent arguments.

Egremont inquired for Bunce, and was told he was not at home, and would not be till very late.

Long before it was really time to start for Lambeth, on his visit to Bunce, he began to walk southwards.

Then he spoke a word or two to the children, and Bunce led him down to the door.

He had been to see Bunce, just now, for such and such reasons, with such and such results.

Ormonde knew, Bunce had given her when she brought Bessie to Eastbourne.

REST It was not without much reluctance, much debate with conscience, that Bunce allowed his child to remain at Eastbourne.

Another woman would have thought Bunce a mere bear when she parted with him, but Mrs.

Luke, though not to such a violent degree as Bunce, was led to offer opposition to everything savouring of idealism--that is to say, of idealism as Egremont had presented it.

The removal which Bunce was about to effect signified an improvement of circumstances.

On Sunday evening, a day or two after the conversation just reported between Jack and Totty, Bunce took his children to Battersea Park.