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- 1 Broken, not in working order; damaged; injured. Australia, New-Zealand, not-comparable, slang
"[…] My right eye has gone bung, and my left one is pretty dicky."
- 1 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.
"With the heavy seas trying to broach the boat they baled — and eventually found someone had forgotten to put the bung in."
- 2 A purse. UK, obsolete
"Oft thsi crew of mates met together, and said there was no hope of nipping the boung because he held open his gowne so wide, and walked in such an open place."
- 3 a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask wordnet
- 4 The cecum or anus, especially of livestock.
- 5 The human anus. slang
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- 6 A bribe. slang
"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."
- 7 The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bung-hole.
- 8 A sharper or pickpocket. obsolete, slang
"You filthy bung, away."
- 9 The landlord of a public house. UK, obsolete, slang
""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!""
- 1 To plug, as with a bung. transitive
"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..."
- 2 close with a cork or stopper wordnet
- 3 To put, throw, or place something without care; to chuck. Australia, UK, informal, transitive
""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.""
- 4 give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on wordnet
- 5 To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell. transitive
"[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."
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- 6 To pass a bribe to (someone). transitive
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”).
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”).
Borrowed from Yagara bang (“dead”).
From bouget (“wallet, purse or bag”), from Middle English bogett, bouget, bowgette (“leather pouch”), from Old French bougette, diminutive of bouge (“leather bag, wallet”), from Late Latin bulga (“wallet, purse”), from Gaulish bolgā, from Proto-Celtic *bolgos (“sack, bag, stomach”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰólǵʰ-os (“skin bag, bolster”), from *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”).
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