# bunk
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: bŭngk, IPA: /bʌŋk/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌŋk

### Etymology 1

Sense of sleeping berth possibly from Scottish English bunker (“seat, bench”), origin is uncertain but possibly Scandinavian. Compare Old Swedish bunke (“boards used to protect the cargo of a ship”). See also boarding, flooring and compare bunch.

#### Noun

bunk (plural bunks)
* One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
    Jane sleeps in the top bunk, and her little sister Lauren takes the bottom bunk.
** 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 6, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎:The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks ; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]
* (nautical) A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
* (military) A cot.
* (US) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
* (US, dialect) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.

##### Derived terms

* bunk bed, bunkbed
* bunkhouse
* bunkie
* bunk lizard
* bunkload
* bunkmate
* bunkroom
* bunkshooter
* bunkside
* bunkspace
* bunk-up
* do a bunk
* feed bunk
* hotbunk
* I'll be in my bunk

##### Translations

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#### Verb

bunk (third-person singular simple present bunks, present participle bunking, simple past and past participle bunked)
* To occupy a bunk.
    Due to bed shortages, Jeff and Paul had to bunk together.
* To provide a bunk.

##### Derived terms

* bunk down
* bunk in
* bunk into
* bunk together
* bunk up
* hot bunk

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Shortened from bunkum, a variant of buncombe, from Buncombe County, North Carolina. See bunkum for more.

#### Noun

bunk (uncountable)
* (slang) Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.
    What she said about me was total bunk. Don't believe a word.
** 1927, Arthur Train, When Tutt Meets Tutt, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 47:“You can’t pull any bunk like that on us!” roared Quelch. “We’ve had enough of this flapdoodlery! Take your money, Mrs. Clinton, and sign the deed.”
* (obsolete) In early use often in the form the bunk. [1900-1927]
** 1927 January 30, Randall Faye, 1:45 from the start, in Upstream, spoken by Eric Brasingham (Earle Foxe), Fox Film Corporation:This knife-throwing act is the bunk
* (slang) A specimen of a recreational drug with insufficient active ingredient.
** 2020 July 18, Rio Da Yung OG, featured by T LB$ (lyrics and music), “Toledo 2 Flint”, in The World is Yours‎, 1:26–1:28:I still can get off with a pound of bunk and pretend it's some Runtz

#### Adjective

bunk (not comparable)
* (slang) Defective, broken, not functioning properly.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:nonsense

##### Derived terms

* debunk

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

19th century, of uncertain origin; perhaps from previous "to occupy a bunk" meaning, with connotations of a hurried departure, as if on a ship.

#### Verb

bunk (third-person singular simple present bunks, present participle bunking, simple past and past participle bunked)
* (British, India) To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk off').
    The naughty boys decided to bunk school and visit the comic shop.
* (dated) To expel from a school.
** 1945, Evelyn Waugh, chapter 4, in Brideshead Revisited […], 3rd edition, London: Chapman & Hall, →OCLC, book 1 (Et in Arcadia Ego), pages 83–84:She was bunked from the convent last term. I don't quite know what for.
* (slang) To depart; scram.
** 1907, Edith Nesbit, The Enchanted Castle:"They're moving off," he said. " […] [T]he funny little man with the beard like a goat is going a different way from everyone else — the gardeners will have to head him off. I don't see Mademoiselle, though. The rest of you had better bunk. […] "

##### Derived terms

* bunker
* bunk off
* bunk out

##### Translations
### References

* Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “bunk”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
* Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
* “bunk”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* knub

## Yola
### Etymology

Probably onomatopoeic or perhaps related to Middle English *bumpe (“bump”), perhaps via a diminutive *bunke, *bumpke.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bʊŋk/

### Noun

bunk
* A light blow from an animal's head.

### References

* Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 136