Bung

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A stopper especially for the hole through which a cask, keg, or barrel is filled or emptied.
  • n. A bunghole.
  • v. To close with or as if with a cork or stopper.
  • v. Informal To injure or damage: fell on skis and bunged up my leg.
  • v. Chiefly British To fling; toss: "The Hungarian director bungs star Klaus Maria Brandauer once more into the breaches of past Teuton history” ( Nigel Andrews).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, vat, a hole in a vessel etc.
  • n. A cecum or anus, especially of a slaughter animal.
  • n. A bribe.
  • v. To plug, as with a bung.
  • v. To put somewhere without care; chuck.
  • v. To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell.
  • v. To pass a bribe.
  • adj. Broken, not in working order.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The large stopper of the orifice in the bilge of a cask.
  • n. The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.
  • n. A sharper or pickpocket.
  • v. To stop, as the orifice in the bilge of a cask, with a bung; to close; -- with up.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A large cork or stopper for closing the hole in the side of a cask through which it is filled.
  • n. The hole or orifice in a cask through which it is filled; a bung-hole.
  • n. A pickpocket; a sharper.
  • n. A brewer.
  • n. A pile of seggars or setters in a porcelain-kiln.
  • To stop the orifice of with a bung; close.
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. close with a cork or stopper
  • v. give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on
  • n. a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask
  • Verb Form
    bunged    bunging    bungs   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    shut    close    present    gift    give    stopper    plug    stopple   
    Cross Reference
    to go bung   
    Form
    bunged    bunging    go bung   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bunghole    close    stopper    vent   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Sung    Young    among    clung    dung    flung    fung    hung    lung    overhung   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    spigot    bunghole    spile    stopper    India rubber    noreaster    spiracle    time-space    simp    soft-faced