Buncoing

/ˈbʌŋkoʊɪŋ/ verb

Present participle of bunco: the act of cheating or swindling someone.

The -ing form of bunco, maintaining the same etymological root from the confidence game. As bunco became more widely known in the late 1800s, the gerund form documented the ongoing practice of fraud.

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