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Bunk vs Levee - What's the difference?

bunk | levee |

As verbs the difference between bunk and levee

is that bunk is to occupy a bunk or bunk can be (british) to fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk off') while levee is .

As a noun bunk

is one of a series of berths or bed placed in tiers or bunk can be (slang) bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.

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)
  • One of a series of berths or bed placed in tiers.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
    • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=6 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, […]}}
  • (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.
    • Derived terms
    * bunk bed, bunkbed * bunkmate

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To occupy a bunk.
  • To provide a bunk.

    • Etymology 2

    Shortened from bunkum, a variant of buncombe, from . See (m) for more.

    Noun

    (-)
  • (slang) Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.
    • Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * debunk

    Etymology 3

    19th century, of uncertain origin; perhaps from previous "" meaning, with connotations of a hurried departure, as if on a ship.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (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.

    • References

    * * *

    levee

    English

    (wikipedia levee)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi.
  • (US) The steep bank of a river, or border of an irrigated field.
  • (US) A pier or other landing place on a river.
    • Synonyms
    * (embankment) dike, floodwall

    Verb

  • (US) To keep within a channel by means of levees.
    • to levee a river

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) The act of rising; getting up, especially in the morning after rest.
  • * Gray
    • the sun's levee
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 414:
    • The sturdy hind now attends the levee of his fellow-labourer the ox
  • A reception of visitors held after getting up.
  • A formal reception, especially one given by royalty or other leaders.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1992 , year_published=1993 , author= Hilary Mantel , title=A Place of Greater Safety citation , isbn=9780689121685 , page=195 , passage=At the King's levee on the morning of the 13th, Philippe was first ignored; then asked by His Majesty (rudely) what he wanted; then told, ‘Get back where you came from.’ }}

    Verb

  • To attend the levee or levees of.
  • * Young
    • He levees all the great.
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