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bung
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bung \Bung\ (b[u^]ng), n. [Cf. W. bwng orfice, bunghole, Ir. buinne tap, spout, OGael. buine.]
The large stopper of the orifice in the bilge of a cask.
The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.
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A sharper or pickpocket. [Obs. & Low]
You filthy bung, away.
--Shak.
Bung \Bung\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bunged; p. pr. & vb. n. Bunging.] To stop, as the orifice in the bilge of a cask, with a bung; to close; -- with up.
To bung up, to use up, as by bruising or over exertion; to exhaust or incapacitate for action. [Low]
He had bunged up his mouth that he should not have
spoken these three years.
--Shelton
(Trans. Don
Quixote).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "large stopper for a cask," from Middle Dutch bonge "stopper;" or perhaps from French bonde "bung, bunghole" (15c.), which may be of Germanic origin (or the Germanic words may be borrowed from Romanic), or it may be from Gaulish *bunda (compare Old Irish bonn, Gaelic bonn, Welsh bon "base, sole of the foot"). It is possible that either or both of these sources is ultimately from Latin puncta in the sense of "hole." Transferred to the cask-mouth itself (also bung-hole) from 1570s.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 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. 2 A cecum or anus, especially of a slaughter animal. 3 (context slang English) A bribe. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To plug, as with a bung. 2 (context UK Australian transitive informal English) To put or throw somewhere without care; to chuck. 3 (context transitive English) To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell. 4 (context transitive English) To pass a bribe. Etymology 2
(context Australia NZ slang English) broken, not in working order.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A bung, stopper or cork is a truncated cylindrical or conical closure to seal a container, such as a bottle, tube or barrel. Unlike a lid, which encloses a container from the outside without displacing the inner volume, a bung is partially inserted inside the container to act as a seal.
A glass stopper is often called a "ground glass joint" (or "joint taper"), a rubber stopper is sometimes called a "rubber bung", and a cork stopper is called simply a "cork". Bung stoppers used for wine bottles are referred to as "corks", even when made from another material.
A common every-day example of a bung is the cork of a wine bottle. Bungs are used to seal the bunghole of barrels. Other bungs, particularly those used in chemical barrels, may be made of metal and be screwed into place via threading.
A bung is an apparatus used to seal a container. It may also refer to:
Places- Bung Bong, Victoria, in Australia
- Bung, Nepal, a Village Development Committee in Nepal
- Bung Tomo (1920-1981), an Indonesian military leader
Usage examples of "bung".
Conrad began with the stupid way that Jeans always stuck his lower jaw out to look like he was thinking, and then moved right into some confused vaporing about how misunderstood he, Conrad Bunger, really was.
Platek, for his part, had expected Conrad von Riemann Bunger to be a Nazi.
The aliens picked the Bunger family because they had no friends or relatives.
Plenty of people in Louisville would recognize Conrad Bunger from the pictures.
Cornelius Skelton, who states that Conrad Bunger spoke to him in person, giving assurances that .
Cornelius Skelton, who says he saw Conrad Bunger shortly after the Zachary Taylor cemetery incident.
Wu cut along the seam of the rubber ball with his penknife, then pocketed one half of the ball and gave the other half to Softly, who began to warm up, being the bunger, or thrower.
Black Jack, so we went out into the street and started hunting old Bunger, and, after about a hour of snooping into low-class dives, we got wind of him.
I saw old Bunger scooting for the exit, and I heered Mike roaring, lunging against his rope.
He had rolled the powder-keg to a safer distance from the Haubitz, and was prying the bung out with a dagger.
And from it he began to produce bottles--little fat bottles containing powders, small and slender bottles containing coloured and white fluids, fluted blue bottles labeled Poison, bottles with round bodies and slender necks, large green-glass bottles, large white-glass bottles, bottles with glass stoppers and frosted labels, bottles with fine corks, bottles with bungs, bottles with wooden caps, wine bottles, salad-oil bottles--putting them in rows on the chiffonnier, on the mantel, on the table under the window, round the floor, on the bookshelf--everywhere.
I could to for you, sir, is upload the tapes from the VCR onto digital format in my camcorder, bung it across a flywire into the new iBook they gave us, chop up the relevant bits and crunch it down via the movie-making software, export it to a Jpeg file and email it straight to you.
What do you call it when two people of opposite sexes are bunged together in close association in a secluded spot, meeting each other every day and seeing a lot of each other?
It was what the magistrate had said to me on the occasion when I stood in the dock as Eustace Plimsoll, of The Laburnums: and as it had impressed me a good deal at the time, I just bunged it in now by way of giving the conversation a tone.
The next moment she was legging it for the dining-room, while I, having bunged the bicycle into a bush, made for the stairs.