Junked vs Bunked - What's the difference?
junked | bunked |
(junk)
Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash.
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, date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist)
A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.
(slang) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
* 1961 , William S. Burroughs, The Soft Machine , page 7
(slang) Genitalia.
* 2009 , (Kesha), (Tik Tok)
(nautical) Salt beef.
Pieces of old cable or cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.
(dated) A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.
(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 junked and bunked
is that junked is past tense of junk while bunked is past tense of bunk.junked
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*junk
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (EtymOnLine).Noun
(-)citation, passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.}}
- Trace a line of goose pimples up the thin young arm. Slide the needle in and push the bulb watching the junk' hit him all over. Move right in with the shit and suck ' junk through all the hungry young cells.
- I'm talking about everybody getting crunk, crunk
- Boys tryin' to touch my junk, junk
- Gonna smack him if he getting too drunk, drunk
- (Lowell)
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* junk bond * junk bottle * junk DNA * junk drawer * junk food * junk hook * junkie * junk mail * junk ring * junkroom * junk science * junkshop * junk vat * junk wad * junkyardSynonyms
* (throw away) bin, chuck, chuck away, chuck out, discard, dispose of, ditch, dump, scrap, throw away, throw out, toss, trash * See alsoEtymology 2
From (etyl) junco, from (etyl) djong (Malay (adjong)).References
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, […]}}