Bunged vs Gunged - What's the difference?
bunged | gunged |
(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.
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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 ,
(gunge)
(British) A soft, sticky mass; goo; gunk.
* (rfdate), New Scientist :
* 1978 , A.S. Byatt, The Virgin in The Garden , Vintage International 1992, p.390:
To clog with gunge.
(British) To cover someone with gunge.
As verbs the difference between bunged and gunged
is that bunged is (bung) while gunged is (gunge).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.
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- 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.
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- ‘Morning Mrs. Weissnicht. I?ve just heard as how your washing-machine?s gone bung .’
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- 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.”
Derived terms
* go bungReferences
* * * Australian National Dictionary , 1988 * Macquarie Dictionary , Second edition, 1991 * Macquarie Slang Dictionary , Revised edition, 2000 ----gunged
English
Verb
(head)gunge
English
Noun
(-)- They call this solid material tholin (after the Greek word for muddy), but it seems likely that chemists will continue to call this rather familiar material “gunge.”
- Have I got trails of gunge on these frills?