Meaning of bonce | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A large marble of grey stone used in various games, such as bonce about, bonce-eye, and French bonce.
   dated
2. A marble game played with bonces.
   dated
3. The human head.
   Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang

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Examples

“Bonces, or very large stone marbles, made chiefly in Holland.”

“BONCE ABOUT is played with a big kind of marbles, called "bonces." The game does not require⟳ much skill. The first player puts down his bonce, and the second aims at it from a given distance. If he hits the bonce of the first player with his own⟳, he wins a marble; if not, the first player aims at the bonce of the second, from the place⟳ where his own⟳ rests. Each time the bonces strike⟳ together, a marble is lost and won. […] The Dutch marbles of grey stone, sometimes stained with various colours, are the honest workable marbles for "shoot⟳ in the ring⟳," and similar games.”

“Bonce is played with very large marbles. One boy pitches his bonce, and another tries to strike⟳ it, each throwing by turns: if the bonce be struck, its owner pays a forfeit of one or more marbles, as agreed on.”

“Bonce (various), the head, called also "crust, chump." From bonce, a marble of larger size than ordinary, used by boys.”

“To see⟳ Nina herself Nick had to crane round the big white bonce of Norman Kent, who was as sensitive to music as he was to conservatives, and kept shifting in his seat.”

“2010, Skins, Season 4 Episode 8, "Everyone". Cook⟳: I don't think⟳ you know⟳ what I am, mate. ... I'm a fucking waste⟳ of space. I'm just a stupid kid. I got no sense⟳. A criminal. I'm no fucking use⟳, me. I am nothing. So, please⟳... please⟳... get⟳ it into, you know⟳, into your bonce... that you killed my friend. And... I'm Cook⟳. I'M COOK⟳!”

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