bung
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Medieval Dutch bonge, bonne or bonghe (“stopper”), or perhaps from French bonde, which may itself be either of Germanic origin or from Proto-Celtic *bunda—either way probably from puncta (“hole”), the feminine singular form of Latin punctus, perfect passive participle of pungō (“pierce into, prick”).
Inflected forms:
form: bungs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bungs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bunging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bunged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bunged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber, used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, vat, a hole in a vessel etc.
pos: noun
examples: With the heavy seas trying to broach the boat they baled — and eventually found someone had forgotten to put the bung in.
Andre pulled the bung from the top of a barrel, applied a glass tube with a suction device, and withdrew a pale, almost greenish liquid.
gloss: The cecum or anus, especially of livestock.
pos: noun
gloss: The human anus.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A bribe.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: It is almost a year since Luton Town's manager, Mike Newell, decided that whistle-blowing was no longer the preserve of referees and went public about illegal bungs.
Is this a case of mere ‘bungs’ (a form of bribery) at play in the book trade, a success bought with massive advertising effort and distribution through the author’s drugstore chain?
gloss: The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bung-hole.
pos: noun
gloss: A sharper or pickpocket.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
slang
examples: You filthy bung, away.
gloss: The landlord of a public house.
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
slang
examples: "Well, sir, I haven't got one," said the landlord, "or you should have it directly." […] "Could you oblige me with such a thing as a postage stamp?" "No," said the Bung; "don't keep 'em!"
gloss: To plug, as with a bung.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It has not yet been ascertained, which is the precise time when it becomes indispensable to bung the cider. The best, I believe, that can be done, is to seize the critical moment which precedes the formation of a pellicle on the surface...
Put the wine into a cask, cover up the bung-hole to keep out the dust, and when the hissing sound ceases, bung the hole closely, and leave the wine untouched for twelve months.
gloss: To put, throw, or place something without care; to chuck.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
UK
informal
transitive
examples: "Doctors are queer birds. This one didn't mind a bit dabbling about that old thing to find out what had happened inside her. He's fixed her up for tonight and is coming tomorrow to put her leg in plaster, or something. He wanted to bung her off to a hospital, but I persuaded him not to."
Of course, the weird thing is that he found Marianne Faithfull at the same time and bunged it onto her, and it was a fucking hit, so already we're songwriters.
And to sustain us while we watch or read, we go to the freezer, take out a frozen pizza, bung it in the microwave and make do.
gloss: To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [T]he Chicken had been tapped, and bunged, and had received pepper, and had been made groggy, and had come up piping, and had endured a complication of similar strange inconveniences, until he had been gone into and finished.
gloss: To pass a bribe to (someone).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Broken, not in working order; damaged; injured.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
not-comparable
slang
examples: […] My right eye has gone bung, and my left one is pretty dicky.
‘Morning Mrs. Weissnicht. I′ve just heard as how your washing-machine′s gone bung.’
Happened to me the other day, I was there minding my own business when a trolley hit my bung foot at about Warp Nine speed.
It′s the signal box, the main switchboard, that′s gone bung!
Henry had said, “Half a million bloomin′ acres. A quarter of a million blanky sheep shorn a year, and they can′t keep on two blokes. It′s not because wer′e union, mate. It′s because we′re newchums. Something′s gone bung with this country.”
Derived words: bung-hole
bungstarter
on the bung
bung it on
bung on
bung out
bung up
rebung
unbung
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: hodit
lang: Czech
word: pohodit
lang: Czech
word: mrsknout
lang: Czech
word: naházet
lang: Finnish
word: nakata