bung

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
    — With the heavy seas trying to broach the boat they baled — and eventually found someone had forgotten to put the bung in.
  2. A purse. UK,obsolete
    — Oft thsi crew of mates met together, and said there was no hope of nipping the boung because he held open his gowne so wide, and walked in such an open place.
  3. The cecum or anus, especially of livestock.
  4. The human anus. slang
  5. A bribe. slang
    — It is almost a year since Luton Town's manager, Mike Newell, decided that whistle-blowing was no longer the preserve of referees and went public about illegal bungs.
  6. The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bung-hole.
  7. A sharper or pickpocket. obsolete,slang
    — You filthy bung, away.
  8. The landlord of a public house. UK,obsolete,slang
    — "Well, sir, I haven't got one," said the landlord, "or you should have it directly." […] "Could you oblige me with such a thing as a postage stamp?" "No," said the Bung; "don't keep 'em!"
动词 v.
  1. To plug, as with a bung. transitive
    — 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...
  2. To put, throw, or place something without care; to chuck. Australia,UK,informal,transitive
    — "Doctors are queer birds. This one didn't mind a bit dabbling about that old thing to find out what had happened inside her. He's fixed her up for tonight and is coming tomorrow to put her leg in plaster, or something. He wanted to bung her off to a hospital, but I persuaded him not to."
  3. To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell. transitive
    — [T]he Chicken had been tapped, and bunged, and had received pepper, and had been made groggy, and had come up piping, and had endured a complication of similar strange inconveniences, until he had been gone into and finished.
  4. To pass a bribe to (someone). transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Broken, not in working order; damaged; injured. Australia,New-Zealand,not-comparable,slang
    — […] My right eye has gone bung, and my left one is pretty dicky.

词形变化

bungs plural bungs present,singular,third-person bunging participle,present bunged participle,past bunged past bungs plural bong alternative bonge alternative boung alternative bounge alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
bung-hole bungstarter on the bung bung it on bung on bung out bung up rebung unbung

词源

词源 1
From Medieval Dutch bonge, bonne or bonghe (“stopper”), or perhaps from French bonde, which may itself be either of Germanic origin or from Proto-Celtic *bunda—either way probably from puncta (“hole”), the feminine singular form of Latin punctus, perfect passive participle of pungō (“pierce into, prick”).
词源 2
Etymology tree
Yagara bangbor.
English bung
Borrowed from Yagara bang (“dead”).
词源 3
From bouget (“wallet, purse or bag”), from Middle English bogett, bouget, bowgette (“leather pouch”), from Old French bougette, diminutive of bouge (“leather bag, wallet”), from Late Latin bulga (“wallet, purse”), from Gaulish bolgā, from Proto-Celtic *bolgos (“sack, bag, stomach”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰólǵʰ-os (“skin bag, bolster”), from *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”).
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