# funge
## English
### Etymology 1

From Old French *funge, from Latin fungus.

#### Noun

funge (plural funges)
* (obsolete) A fungus.
* (obsolete) A fool or simpleton.
** 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 2:Be not ashamed of thy birth then, thou art a gentleman all the world over, and shalt be honoured, whenas he, strip him of his fine clothes, dispossess him of his wealth, is a funge […]

### Etymology 2

Back-formation from fungible, as in non-fungible token.

#### Noun

funge (third-person singular simple present funges, present participle funging, simple past and past participle funged)
* (humorous, cryptocurrencies) To steal an NFT or other crypto asset.
** 2022 January 2, “I Will Funge These Tokens If It's the Last Thing I Do”, in Points In Case:The most expensive NFT to date was sold for $91.8 million. If that doesn’t make you want to throw up, regain your composure, then enlist in the noble crusade to funge tokens until the day you die, then I’m afraid you’re already a willing prisoner to the blockchain and my sworn enemy.
** 2022 February 4, Aiden Walker, “15 Freshly Funged Memes About NFTs”, in Know Your Meme:Look, here's 15 memes about non-fungible tokens, and I guess technically the memes themselves have been funged because they all come from places on the internet, but really, that's getting into the weeds.
** 2022 February 10, dmonea, “nft-stealer”, in GitHub:Python script to Funge NFTs. It scrapes OpenSea for a given list of NFT collections and downloads a certain number of NFTs from each collection or the entire collections.
* (humorous, cryptocurrencies) Euphemistic form of fuck.
** 2022 February 12, Blake Montgomery, “NFT Shop Flooded With Fakes Stops Nearly All Transactions”, in The Daily Beast‎:GET FUNGED
** 2022 July 25, Ana Valens, “I Can’t Get Over VTuber Ironmouse Making Fun of NFTs”, in The Mary Sue‎:Luckily, MSNBC reported in May that NFTs are in low demand and high supply, which means the entire non-fungible market is non-fungibly funged up.
* (humorous, cryptocurrencies) A meaningless nonce word used to make fun of NFTs.
** 2021 March 12, Nick Miller, “The world’s gone mad for NFTs. But what are they?”, in Sydney Morning Herald‎:Why is it non-fungible? Why don’t I want it to be funged?
** 2021 April 16, Rachel Rascoe, “Faster Than Sound: Falling Hard for Sasha & the Valentines”, in The Austin Chronicle‎:True Love Will Funge You in the End

### Anagrams

* Fengu

## Danish
### Verb

funge
* Alternative form of funke

#### Conjugation

activepassive
present
funger
funges
past
fungede
fungedes
infinitive
funge
funges
imperative
fung
participle
present
fungende
past
funget (auxiliary verb have)
gerund
fungen :

### References

* “funge” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfun.d͡ʒe/
* Rhymes: -undʒe
* Hyphenation: fùn‧ge

### Verb

funge
* third-person singular present indicative of fungere

## Latin
### Noun

funge
* vocative singular of fungus

## Spanish
### Verb

funge
* inflection of fungir:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative