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bung | burst |

In lang=en terms the difference between bung and burst

is that bung is to pass a bribe while burst is to produce as an effect of bursting.

As nouns the difference between bung and burst

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 burst is an instance of, or the act of bursting .

As verbs the difference between bung and burst

is that bung is to plug, as with a bung while burst is to break from internal pressure.

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 ----

    burst

    English

    (wikipedia burst)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instance of, or the act of bursting .
    • The bursts of the bombs could be heard miles away.
  • A series of shots fired from an automatic firearm.

    • Derived terms

    * cloudburst

    Verb

  • To break from internal pressure.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=6 citation , passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}
  • To cause to break from internal pressure.
  • (obsolete) To cause to break by any means.
  • * Shakespeare
    • You will not pay for the glasses you have burst ?
  • * Fairfax
    • He burst his lance against the sand below.
  • To separate formfeed at perforation lines.
  • To enter or exit hurriedly and unexpectedly.
  • * 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
    • He entered Maromme shouting for the people of the inn, burst open the door with a thrust of his shoulder, made for a sack of oats, emptied a bottle of sweet cider into the manger, and again mounted his nag, whose feet struck fire as it dashed along.
  • * 1913 , (Mariano Azuela), The Underdogs, translated by E. MunguÍa, Jr.
    • Like hungry dogs who have sniffed their meat, the mob bursts in, trampling down the women who sought to bar the entrance with their bodies.
  • To produce as an effect of bursting.
    • to burst a hole through the wall

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "burst")

    Derived terms

    * burst forth * burst into flame * burst out * burst someone's bubble

    Related terms

    * bust