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:
bunce
verb
Etymology Costermonger jargon bunts, perhaps from bonus.
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: