"wunch" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /wʌnt͡ʃ/ Forms: wunches [plural]
Rhymes: -ʌntʃ Etymology: Created by spoonerism: transposing the first letters of bunch of wankers produces the phrase wunch of bankers. Head templates: {{en-noun}} wunch (plural wunches)
  1. (British, humorous, derogatory) A group of unpleasant people, especially bankers; a supposed collective noun for bankers. Tags: British, derogatory, humorous

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          "ref": "1995, Trades Union Congress, Report of Annual Trades Union Congress",
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          "ref": "2005 August 17, “Feedback”, in New Scientist",
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          "ref": "2010, Geraint Anderson, Cityboy: Beer and Loathing in the Square Mile, Hachette UK",
          "text": "Apparently, I also removed my shirt as if performing a malcoordinated strip routine and then introduced bemused spectators to a dance move that was out of place when first revealed at university and was certainly not appropriate at a reasonably formal party surrounded by a wunch of bankers.",
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        {
          "ref": "2011, Andrew Hicks, My Thai Girl and I: How I found a new life in Thailand, Monsoon Books",
          "text": "Meanwhile in the more conventional 'Men Seeking Women' column [of the Financial Times], the guys go to great lengths to make themselves sound utterly loathsome. They're tall and muscular, exceptionally handsome and attractive, loyal, sincere, genuine, sensitive, educated, rich and modest. What a wunch!",
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          "ref": "2014, Charles Stross, The Rhesus Chart, Penguin",
          "text": "Well fuck me sideways with a wooden stake, I realize dismally, I've fallen in a wunch of vampires.",
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