Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A stopper, especially for the hole through which a cask, keg, or barrel is filled or emptied.
- noun A bunghole.
- transitive verb To close with a cork or stopper.
- transitive verb Informal To injure or damage.
- transitive verb Chiefly British To fling; toss.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To stop the orifice of with a bung; close.
- noun A large cork or stopper for closing the hole in the side of a cask through which it is filled.
- noun The hole or orifice in a cask through which it is filled; a bung-hole.
- noun A pickpocket; a sharper.
- noun A brewer.
- noun A pile of seggars or setters in a porcelain-kiln.
- To beat severely; exhaust by hard blows or strenuous effort; bruise; maul: used chiefly in the phrase bunged up: as, he was all bunged up in the fight; the day's work has completely bunged me up.
- Dead.
- To fail; go to smash; collapse; become bankrupt: as, the bank has gone bung.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The large stopper of the orifice in the bilge of a cask.
- noun The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.
- noun Obs. & Low A sharper or pickpocket.
- transitive verb To stop, as the orifice in the bilge of a cask, with a bung; to close; -- with
up . - transitive verb [Low] to use up, as by bruising or over exertion; to exhaust or incapacitate for action.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Australia, New Zealand, slang
Broken , not in working order. - noun A
stopper , alternative to acork , often made ofrubber used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of abottle , vat, a hole in avessel etc. - noun A
cecum oranus , especially of a slaughter animal. - noun slang A
bribe . - verb transitive To
plug , as with a bung. - verb transitive, informal To
put somewhere without care;chuck . - verb transitive To
batter ,bruise ; to cause tobulge orswell . - verb transitive To pass a
bribe .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb close with a cork or stopper
- verb give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on
- noun a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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When the hissing noise subsides, the bung is driven in firmly, and a little hole is made in the head of the cask, near the bung, which is stopped with a wooden peg.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally Jane 1845
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So police officers are being compromised by being pressurised to lie and then being pressurised to drive in a way that could result in death or bodily injury to themselves or to innocent members of public who you have sworn to protect all so that someone snotty superintendent can get a bung from the Home Office
Policing Pledge Response Times – The Ugly Truth! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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The stopper in the barrel is called the bung, and the hole is called the bung hole.
Archive 2008-09-01 Zenmomma 2008
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The stopper in the barrel is called the bung, and the hole is called the bung hole.
Thursday Thirteen - The ARRRGHHHH! edition Zenmomma 2008
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Each stack of saggars, called a bung, should be set straight and not rock.
2. Kilns 1987
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Finally he brought out two cents, one of the kind popularly known as bung-towns, which are not generally recognized as true currency.
Only an Irish Boy Andy Burke's Fortunes Horatio Alger 1865
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He has seven 20-meter-high sugar palm trees that he climbs every morning to take the sap of the sugar palm trees and put it in bamboo containers called bung bung.
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"That's what I've wanted to do for 50 years," said Lyons, the founder and president of Alltech, after he drove a wood plug, known as a bung, into the first keg.
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Fifa insists it is investigating English 'bung' cases
New sponsorship deal papers over cracks of FA's financial problems 2011
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Fifa insists it is investigating English 'bung' cases
Football Association hopes to finally name chairman from very short list | Matt Scott 2010
mutandis26 commented on the word bung
Also a stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, a hole in a vessel etc.
August 22, 2009
bilby commented on the word bung
"This American Life producer, Ben Calhoun, got a hot tip about a farmer, who is in charge of 'a pork producing operation that spans several states.' This farmer has was visiting a pork processing plant one day in Oklahoma, and noticed boxes stacked on the floor labeled 'artificial calamari.' Asked what that meant, the plant’s manager replied, 'Bung. It’s hog rectum.' For clarity, Calhoun adds, 'Rectum that would be sliced into rings, deep fried, and boom, there you have it.'”
- Eric Steinman, Is it Calamari or Pig Bung?, care2.com, 16 Jan 2013.
January 18, 2013