bung

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(buŋ)

noun

  1. a cork or other stopper for the hole in a barrel, cask, or keg
  2. a bunghole

Origin: ME bunge < MDu bonge

transitive verb

  1. to close (a bunghole) with a stopper
  2. to close as with a bung; stop up

  3. Origin: prob. infl. by bang

    Slang to bruise or damage, as in a fight: with up
  4. Brit., Slang to toss; fling; throw

See bung in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. A stopper especially for the hole through which a cask, keg, or barrel is filled or emptied.
  2. A bunghole.
transitive verb bunged, bung·ing, bungs
  1. To close with or as if with a cork or stopper.
  2. Informal To injure or damage: fell on skis and bunged up my leg.
  3. Chiefly British To fling; toss: “The Hungarian director bungs star Klaus Maria Brandauer once more into the breaches of past Teuton history” (Nigel Andrews).

Origin:

Origin: Middle English bunge

Origin: , from Middle Dutch bonge

Origin: , from Late Latin pūncta, hole

Origin: , from Latin

Origin: , feminine past participle of pungere, to prick; see peuk- in Indo-European roots

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