Burked vs Bunked - What's the difference?
burked | bunked |
(burke)
(UK, slang) To murder in the same manner as Burke, to kill by suffocation
*1829 February 2 , Times (London), 3/5
*:As soon as the executioner proceeded to his duty, the cries of ‘Burke' him, '''Burke''' him—give him no rope’... were vociferated... ‘' Burke Hare too!’
(UK, slang, historical) To murder for the same purpose as Burke, to kill in order to have a body to sell to anatomists, surgeons,
*1833 , T. Hook, Parson's Daughter , II. i. 26
*:Perhaps he is Burked , and his body sold for nine pounds.
*1836 , Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers , :
(UK, slang) To smother; to conceal, hush up, suppress.
*1835 , J. A. Roebuck. Dorchester Labourers , 6/1 (note)
*:The reporters left it out... Those who spoke in favour of the poor men, were what the reporters call burked .
* 1888 , Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills , Folio 2005, page 128:
:1953 , (Robert Graves), Poems , 4
::Socrates and Plato burked the issue.
(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.
As verbs the difference between burked and bunked
is that burked is (burke) while bunked is (bunk).burked
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(head)burke
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(burk)- ‘You don’t mean to say he was burked , Sam?’ said Mr. Pickwick, looking hastily round.
- He put away—burked —the Directors' letter, and went in to talk to Riley
Anagrams
* English eponymsbunked
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*bunk
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(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, […]}}
