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Definition bung

Etymology 1

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 pung? (“pierce into, prick”).

Noun

bung (plural bungs)

  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. (slang) A bribe.
  4. The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.
  5. (obsolete, slang) A sharper or pickpocket.
Verb

bung (third-person singular simple present bungs, present participle bunging, simple past and past participle bunged)

  1. (transitive) To plug, as with a bung.
  2. (Britain, Australia, transitive, informal) To put or throw somewhere without care; to chuck.
  3. (transitive) To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell.
  4. (transitive) To pass a bribe.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Yagara bang (“dead”).

Adjective

bung (not comparable)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Broken, not in working order.

Etymology 3

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 bolg?, from Proto-Celtic *bolgos (“sack, bag, stomach”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ól??-os (“skin bag, bolster”), from *b?el??- (“to swell”).

Noun

bung (plural bungs)

  1. (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) A purse.

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