Bunked vs Bunned - 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.
(of hair) Arranged in a bun.
* (William Melvin Kelley), Dancers on the Shore
As a verb bunked
is (bunk).As an adjective bunned is
(of hair) arranged in a bun.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
* * *bunned
English
Adjective
(-)- I studied her; she looked the same, her white hair bunned at her neck, her blue eyes large behind glasses, her skin the color of unvarnished wood.