Bunged vs Hunged - What's the difference?
bunged | hunged |
(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 ,
(nonstandard) (hang)
(lb) To be or remain suspended.
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*:On the dark-green walls hung a series of eight engravings, portraits of early Victorian belles, clad in lace and tarletan ball dresses, clipped from an old Book of Beauty. Mrs. Bunting was very fond of these pictures; she thought they gave the drawing-room a note of elegance and refinement.
(lb) To float, as if suspended.
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(lb) To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.
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(lb) To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger or the like.
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::It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
To execute (someone) by suspension from the neck.
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*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=3 To be executed by suspension by one's neck from a gallows, a tree, or other raised bar, attached by a rope tied into a noose.
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To loiter, hang around, to spend time idly.
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(lb) To exhibit (an object) by hanging.
(lb) To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall).
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(lb) To decorate (something) with hanging objects.
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To remain persistently in one's thoughts.
*1895 , H. G. Wells, The Time Machine , Ch.X:
*:Exploring, I found another short gallery running transversely to the first. This appeared to be devoted to minerals, and the sight of a block of sulphur set my mind running on gunpowder. But I could find no saltpeter; indeed no nitrates of any kind. Doubtless they had deliquesced ages ago. Yet the sulphur hung in my mind and set up a train of thinking.
To stop responding to manual input devices such as keyboard or mouse.
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To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding.
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To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture.
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To be vulnerable to capture.
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The way in which something hangs.
(figuratively) A grip, understanding
(computing) An instance of ceasing to respond to input devices.
A sharp or steep declivity or slope.
(Ireland, informal, derogatory) Cheap, processed ham (cured pork), often made specially for sandwiches.
As verbs the difference between bunged and hunged
is that bunged is past tense of bung while hunged is past tense of hang.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
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- 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 !
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- 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 ----hunged
English
Verb
(head)hang
English
(wikipedia hang)Etymology 1
A fusion of (etyl) .Verb
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Synonyms
* (be or remain suspended) be suspended, dangle * (float as if suspended) float, hover * lynch, string up * (be executed) go to the gallows, swing (informal) * (loiter) hang about, hang around, loiter * freeze, lock up * suspend * (hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect) drop, lower * (to place on a hook) hook, hook up * (exhibit) exhibit, show * put up * bedeck, deck, decorate * freeze, lock up * *Usage notes
* Formerly, at least through the 16th century, the past tense of the transitive use of (term) was (hanged) (see quote from King James Bible, above). This form is retained for the legal senses "to be executed by suspension from the neck" and "to execute by suspension from the neck" and (hung) for all other meanings. However, this rule is not uniformly understood or observed. (term) is sometimes substituted for (term), which would be considered inappropriate in legal or other formal writing (for the applicable senses only) or, more rarely, vice versa . See also – in Old English there were separate words for transitive (whence (term)) and intransitive (whence (term)).Derived terms
* behang * hang a left * hang a right * hang about * hang around * hang back * hangdog * * hanger * hang fire * hang-glider * hang in * hang in the balance * hang in there * hanging * hang it * hangman * hangnail * hang off * hang on * hang onto * hang out * hang out to dry * hang-out, hangout * hangover * hang ten * hang together * hang tough * hang up * hang-up, hangup * I'll be hanged * leave hanging * overhang * underhangNoun
(en noun)- ''This skirt has a nice hang .
- ''He got the hang of it after only two demonstrations
- ''We sometimes get system hangs .