Bunn vs Bung - What's the difference?
bunn | bung |
(sweetened bread roll)
* 1816 , Joshua E. White, Letters on England
* 1856 , Lucius Manlius Sargent, Dealings with the Dead (volume 2, page 472)
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 ,
As nouns the difference between bunn and bung
is that bunn is (sweetened bread roll) while bung is 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.As a verb bung is
to plug, as with a bung.As an adjective bung is
(australia|nz|slang) broken, not in working order.bunn
English
Noun
(en noun)- Such is the general hurry and confusion in the principal streets, such as Castle Street, Lord Street, Pool Lane, Paradise Street, &c. that often passengers take up a bunn , a cake, or some fruit, as they pass the shop of a confectioner or fruit-seller, without stopping, and throw in the pay without inquiring the price.
- "Oh," she replied, "when I came to think of it, I saw, that you were right. I thought, 'twas quite likely it would draw a blank. Crust, the baker, offered me what I gave for it, and a sheet of bunns , to boot, and I let him have it, three weeks ago.
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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.
page 206,
- ‘Morning Mrs. Weissnicht. I?ve just heard as how your washing-machine?s gone bung .’
page 219,
- 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.”