bunk

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
发音 bŭngk

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
    — Jane sleeps in the top bunk, and her little sister Lauren takes the bottom bunk.
  2. A hasty departure. slang
    — You may well say chance it, lad. From what I see and what I hear it seems to be getting a pretty near thing which side touches down first, but the old geezer's dead set on going through whatever turns up, and God knows that if it comes to a general bunk he's bound to be the hindmost.
  3. Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense. dated,slang,uncountable
    — What she said about me was total bunk. Don't believe a word.
  4. A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
  5. In early use often in the form the bunk. obsolete,uncountable
    — This knife-throwing act is the bunk
  6. A specimen of a recreational drug with insufficient active ingredient. slang,uncountable
    — I still can get off with a pound of bunk and pretend it's some Runtz
  7. A cot.
  8. A bed in a prison, worksite or similar location. informal
  9. A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night. US
  10. A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers. US,dialectal
  11. A dormitory or bunkroom where soldiers sleep. Singapore,broadly
    — Don’t leave your bunk unlocked.
动词 v.
  1. To occupy a bunk.
    — Due to bed shortages, Jeff and Paul had to bunk together.
  2. To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually 'to bunk off'). India,UK,slang
    — The naughty boys decided to bunk school and visit the comic shop.
  3. To provide a bunk.
  4. To expel from a school. UK,dated,slang
    — She was bunked from the convent last term. I don't quite know what for.
  5. To depart; scram. slang
    — "They're moving off," he said. "[…] [T]he funny little man with the beard like a goat is going a different way from everyone else — the gardeners will have to head him off. I don't see Mademoiselle, though. The rest of you had better bunk. […]"
形容词 adj.
  1. Defective, broken, not functioning properly. not-comparable,slang

词形变化

bunks plural bunks present,singular,third-person bunking participle,present bunked participle,past bunked past bunks present,singular,third-person bunking participle,present bunked participle,past bunked past bunks plural

词源

词源 1
Sense of sleeping berth possibly from Scottish English bunker (“seat, bench”), origin is uncertain but possibly Scandinavian
Compare Old Swedish bunke (“boards used to protect the cargo of a ship”).
See also boarding, flooring and compare bunch.
词源 2
Shortened from bunkum, a variant of buncombe, from Buncombe County, North Carolina. See bunkum for more.
词源 3
19th century, of uncertain origin; perhaps from previous "to occupy a bunk" meaning, with connotations of a hurried departure, as if on a ship.
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