Bunk vs Litter - What's the difference?
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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.
(countable) A platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol.
* Shakespeare
(countable) The offspring of a mammal born in one birth.
* D. Estrange
(uncountable) Material used as bedding for animals.
(uncountable) Collectively, items discarded on the ground.
* Jonathan Swift
(uncountable) Absorbent material used in an animal's litter tray
(uncountable) Layer of fallen leaves and similar organic matter in a forest floor.
A covering of straw for plants.
* Evelyn
To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).
* By tossing the bottle out the window, he was littering .
To strew with scattered articles.
* Jonathan Swift
To give birth to, used of animals.
* Sir Thomas Browne
* Shakespeare
To produce a litter of young.
* Macaulay
To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
* Bishop Hacke
* Dryden
To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
* Habington
As nouns the difference between bunk and litter
is that bunk is one of a series of berths or bed placed in tiers or bunk can be (slang) bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense while litter is (countable) a platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol.As verbs the difference between bunk and litter
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 litter is to drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).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
* * *litter
English
Noun
(wikipedia litter)- There is a litter ready; lay him in 't.
- A wolf came to a sow, and very kindly offered to take care of her litter .
- Strephon / Stole in, and took a strict survey / Of all the litter as it lay.
- Take off the litter from your kernel beds.
Synonyms
* (platform designed to carry a person or a load): palanquin, sedan chair, stretcher, cacolet * (items discarded on the ground): waste, rubbish, garbage (US), trash (US), junkDerived terms
* cat litter * litter bin * litter bug, litterbug * litter frogVerb
(en verb)- the room with volumes littered round
- We might conceive that dogs were created blind, because we observe they were littered so with us.
- The son that she did litter here, / A freckled whelp hagborn.
- A desert where the she-wolf still littered .
- Tell them how they litter their jades.
- For his ease, well littered was the floor.
- The inn where he and his horse littered .