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Bunged vs Bonged - What's the difference?

bunged | bonged |

As verbs the difference between bunged and bonged

is that bunged is past tense of bung while bonged is past tense of bong.

bunged

English

Verb

(head)
  • (bung)

  • 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 ----

    bonged

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bong)

  • bong

    English

    Etymology 1

    Onomatopoeia

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A clang of a large bell.
  • Door bell chimes.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • to pull a bell.
  • to ring a doorbell.
  • Etymology 2

    (bong) From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A vessel, usually made of glass or ceramic and filled with water, used in smoking various substances; especially marijuana or pot.
  • A device for rapidly consuming beer, usually consisting of a funnel or reservoir of beer and a length of tubing.
  • Synonyms
    * (vessel for smoking) bucket bong, water pipe * (device for consuming beer) beer bong
    Derived terms
    * beer bong * bong hit * bongwater * bucket bong * gravity bong
    See also
    * hookah * hubbly bubbly * narghile * pipe * shisha

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A very wide piton.
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