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Bung vs Barrel - What's the difference?

bung | barrel |

In lang=en terms the difference between bung and barrel

is that bung is to pass a bribe while barrel is to move quickly or in an uncontrolled manner.

As nouns the difference between bung and barrel

is that bung is 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 while barrel is (countable) a round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.

As verbs the difference between bung and barrel

is that bung is to plug, as with a bung while barrel is to put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.

As an adjective bung

is (australia|nz|slang) broken, not in working order.

bung

English

Etymology 1

From Medieval (etyl) bonge, bonne or .

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • * 1996 , Dudley Pope, Life in Nelson's Navy
    • With the heavy seas trying to broach the boat they baled — and eventually found someone had forgotten to put the bung in.
  • * 2008 , Christine Carroll, The Senator's Daughter
    • Andre pulled the bung from the top of a barrel, applied a glass tube with a suction device, and withdrew a pale, almost greenish liquid.
  • A cecum or anus, especially of a slaughter animal.
  • (slang) A bribe.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2006 , date=December 21 , author=Leader , title=Poorly tackled , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=It is almost a year since Luton Town's manager, Mike Newell, decided that whistle-blowing was no longer the preserve of referees and went public about illegal bungs .}}
  • The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.
  • (obsolete, slang) A sharper or pickpocket.
  • * Shakespeare
    • You filthy bung , away.

    Verb

  • To plug, as with a bung.
  • * 1810 , Agricultural Surveys: Worcester (1810)
    • It has not yet been ascertained, which is the precise time when it becomes indispensable to bung the cider. The best, I believe, that can be done, is to seize the critical moment which precedes the formation of a pellicle on the surface...
  • * 2006 , A. G. Payne, Cassell's Shilling Cookery
    • Put the wine into a cask, cover up the bung-hole to keep out the dust, and when the hissing sound ceases, bung the hole closely, and leave the wine untouched for twelve months.
  • (UK, Australian, transitive, informal) To put somewhere without care; chuck.
  • * 2004 , Bob Ashley, Food and cultural studies
    • And to sustain us while we watch or read, we go to the freezer, take out a frozen pizza, bung it in the microwave and make do.''
  • To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell.
  • To pass a bribe.
    • Derived terms
    * bung it on * bung on

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (Australia, NZ, slang) Broken, not in working order.
  • * 1922 , , 2004, page 365,
    • The evening we reached the glacier Bowers[] wrote:
    My right eye has gone bung , and my left one is pretty dicky.
  • * 1953 , , A Year of Space , page 206,
    • ‘Morning Mrs. Weissnicht. I?ve just heard as how your washing-machine?s gone bung .’
  • * 1997 , Lin Van Hek, The Ballad of Siddy Church , page 219,
    • It?s the signal box, the main switchboard, that?s gone bung !
  • * 2006 , Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push , page 9,
    • Henry had said, “Half a million bloomin? acres. A quarter of a million blanky sheep shorn a year, and they can?t keep on two blokes. It?s not because wer?e union, mate. It?s because we?re newchums. Something?s gone bung with this country.”
    Derived terms
    * go bung

    References

    * * * Australian National Dictionary , 1988 * Macquarie Dictionary , Second edition, 1991 * Macquarie Slang Dictionary , Revised edition, 2000 ----

    barrel

    English

    (wikipedia barrel) of a winery in (Trnava), (Slovakia).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable) A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads. Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Yesterday’s fuel , passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).}}
  • The quantity which constitutes a full barrel. This varies for different articles and also in different places for the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A barrel of wine is 31 ½ gallons; a barrel of flour is 196 pounds; of beer 31 gallons; of ale 32 gallons; of crude oil 42 gallons.
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  • A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case;
  • A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
  • (archaic) A tube.
  • (zoology) The hollow basal part of a feather.
  • (music) The part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and looks rather like a barrel (1).
  • (surfing) A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.
  • A waste receptacle.
  • The ribs and belly of a horse or pony.
  • (obsolete) A jar.
  • * Bible , 1 Kings 17:12, King James Version:
    • And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel , and a little oil in a cruse:
  • *:: compare the New International Version:
  • *::: "As surely as the LORD your God lives," she replied, "I don't have any bread--only a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug.
  • (biology) Any of the dark-staining regions in the somatosensory cortex of rodents, etc., where somatosensory inputs from the contralateral side of the body come in from the thalamus.

    • Related terms

    * barrelette * barrelless * barrel of monkeys * barreloid * barrel roll * infrabarreled, infrabarrelled * like shooting fish in a barrel * * over a barrel

    See also

    * cooper

    Verb

  • To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
  • To move quickly or in an uncontrolled manner.
    • He came barrelling around the corner and I almost hit him.
  • * '>citation
    • Snow shattered and spilled down the slope. Within seconds, the avalanche was the size of more than a thousand cars barreling down the mountain and weighed millions of pounds.