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Pung

//pʌŋ// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A low box-like sleigh designed to be pulled by one horse. Canada, US

    "[…] they all crowded into the big pung sleigh, among straw and furry robes."

  2. 2
    A set of three identical tiles.
  3. 3
    a one-horse sleigh consisting of a box on runners wordnet
  4. 4
    A call for forming such a set using a discarded tile.
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of ping Internet, form-of, nonstandard, participle, past

Etymology

Etymology 1

Shortened form of tom-pung, from the same Algonquian etymon as toboggan.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Cantonese 碰 (pung³).

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