Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The ceremony of admitting a young man to the privileges of manhood. Also burbong.

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Examples

  • The six o'clock TV news was burbung quietly in the background, the volume down since the latest Voss manhunt item ended, but the VCR still whirring, Parlabane now obsessively recording every broadcast on the matter.

    Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

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