Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To poke; push.
- To take pains; labor assiduously with little progress.
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- verb US, regional To
pay orhand over ; toshell out
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Examples
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"we comin' rougher" is a line Eugene picked up from a French "pungle" band named La Phaze, from a song called "La Fièvre de l'Exil", pretty much on the same theme, only francocentric
Boing Boing xeni@xeni.net (Boing Boing Video 2010
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Not only that, if they are paid minimum wage the city will probably continue to pungle up the difference between Paulson's pay and a "living wage."
Paulson jobs spiel smells like baloney (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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They're saying that it's a tax, and therefore the embassy has diplomatic immunity from having to pungle up.
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They're saying that it's a tax, and therefore the embassy has diplomatic immunity from having to pungle up.
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So now the call is to pungle up another $2 million so that the developer can string the PDC out even further?
Is it time for the city to fold on the "Heritage Building"? (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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"I reckon you'd ask a chicken to pungle up the gravel in his gizzard if you thought he'd picked up a sliver of gold," Jim drawled, in his lazy utterance.
Bruvver Jim's Baby Philip Verrill Mighels
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"And an ordinary chicken, with the pip thrown in, could pungle twice to my once."
Bruvver Jim's Baby Philip Verrill Mighels
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"You bet your boots it's so, and you can't begin to pungle up a minute too soon!" was the answer.
Bruvver Jim's Baby Philip Verrill Mighels
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Calc'late I'll do a mite of investigatin ''fore I pungle over that five thousand ....
Scattergood Baines Clarence Budington Kelland 1922
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They don't have to; I signed to forfeit everything any interest day that I failed to pungle up.
The She Boss A Western Story Arthur Preston Hankins 1906
oroboros commented on the word pungle
To shell out; plunk down (money); to pay up. From Spanish Poner, to put; pongale: "put it down".
June 14, 2009
qms commented on the word pungle
The Century Dictionary definition provided with the Word of the Day notification is at odds with all other sources. They seem to have mistaken a word that means to meet successfully, although with difficulty, a financial (originally gambling) or other obligation for one that means to labor fruitlessly at any task.
The Century eds. have been rash.
The def. and the usages clash.
The entry for "pungle"
Is wholly a bungle.
The word means "come up with cash."
See the entry at The Dictionary of American Regional English.
September 1, 2014