英语词汇bunko的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	bunko
词源	bunko. Any swindler or cheat, from the Spanish banca (a game of chance at cards). The term originated in the U.S., Her- bert Asbury advising in Sucker’s Progress (1938): “Eight-Dice Cloth was introduced into San Francisco by a crooked gambler who made various changes in the method of play and chris- tened it Banco. After a few years this was corrupted into Bunco, sometimes spelled Bunko, and in time Bunco came to be a gen- eral term applied to all swindling and confidence games.”
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