Funge
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A fungus. obsolete
- 2 A fool or simpleton. obsolete
"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 […]"
- 1 to substitute for a practically equivalent good or unit transitive
"For quotations using this term, see Citations:funge."
- 2 to substitute for a practically equivalent good or unit; to be substituted thus intransitive, transitive
- 3 To steal an NFT; to copy the image or other data associated with the NFT. humorous, transitive
"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."
- 4 Euphemistic form of fuck. euphemistic, form-of, humorous
"GET FUNGED"
- 5 A meaningless nonce word used to make fun of NFTs. humorous
"Why is it non-fungible? Why don’t I want it to be funged?"
Example
More examples"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
From Old French *funge, from Latin fungus.
Back-formation from fungible, as in non-fungible token.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.