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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
gunge .
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Examples
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On the DIY front... use real paint, not those aimed-for-DIY paints/weird gunges.
Do It Yourself Rachel 2006
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The gentlemen have established gunges for their own advantage, called Colonel Gunge, at Darunghur, Futtyghur, &c. The collection of the customs from all quarters they have stopped, and collected them at their own gunges.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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In the case before you, it became so by employing military men as farmers of revenue, as masters of markets and of gunges.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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They have established gunges where there never were any, and where they were, those they have abolished; 30,000 or 40,000 rupees is the sum they are rented at; the collections, to the amount of a lac of rupees, are stopped.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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"First, I, who am the Nabob Asoph ul Dowlah Bahadur, do agree that the jaghires and the gunges and monthly allowance of the officers and servants, and of the ladies of the zenanah, and of those specified in the accounts annexed, shall be at the disposal and under the management and authority of the Begum, and no one shall oppose or prevent it: this I will punctually observe.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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