Bunked vs Bunged - What's the difference?
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(bunk)
One of a series of berths or bed placed in tiers.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=6 (nautical) A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
(military) A cot.
(US) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
(US, dialect) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
(slang) Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.
(British) To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk off').
(obsolete) To expel from a school.
(bung)
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
* 2008 , Christine Carroll, The Senator's Daughter
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
The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.
(obsolete, slang) A sharper or pickpocket.
* Shakespeare
To plug, as with a bung.
* 1810 , Agricultural Surveys: Worcester (1810)
* 2006 , A. G. Payne, Cassell's Shilling Cookery
(UK, Australian, transitive, informal) To put somewhere without care; chuck.
* 2004 , Bob Ashley, Food and cultural studies
To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell.
To pass a bribe.
(Australia, NZ, slang) Broken, not in working order.
* 1922 , , 2004,
* 1953 , , A Year of Space ,
* 1997 , Lin Van Hek, The Ballad of Siddy Church ,
* 2006 , Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push ,
As verbs the difference between bunked and bunged
is that bunked is (bunk) while bunged is (bung).bunked
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*bunk
English
(wikipedia bunk)Etymology 1
Sense of sleeping berth possibly from Scottish English , origin is uncertain but possibly Scandinavian. Confer Old Swedish . See also boarding, flooring and confer bunch.Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks ?; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]}}
Derived terms
* bunk bed, bunkbed * bunkmateEtymology 2
Shortened from bunkum, a variant of buncombe, from . See (m) for more.Noun
(-)Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* debunkEtymology 3
19th century, of uncertain origin; perhaps from previous "" meaning, with connotations of a hurried departure, as if on a ship.Verb
(en verb)References
* * *bunged
English
Verb
(head)bung
English
Etymology 1
From Medieval (etyl) bonge, bonne or .Noun
(en noun)- With the heavy seas trying to broach the boat they baled — and eventually found someone had forgotten to put the bung in.
- 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.
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 .}}
- You filthy bung , away.
Verb
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.''
Derived terms
* bung it on * bung onEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Adjective
(-)page 365,
- The evening we reached the glacier Bowers
[ ] wrote:
- My right eye has gone bung , and my left one is pretty dicky.
page 206,
- ‘Morning Mrs. Weissnicht. I?ve just heard as how your washing-machine?s gone bung .’
page 219,
- It?s the signal box, the main switchboard, that?s gone bung !
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.”