bung

See also: bụng

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbʌŋ/
  • Audio (General Australian):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌŋ

Etymology 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”).

Noun

bung (plural bungs)

  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.
    • 1996, Dudley Pope, Life in Nelson's Navy:
      With the heavy seas trying to broach the boat they baled — and eventually found someone had forgotten to put the bung in.
    • 2008, Christine Carroll, The Senator's Daughter:
      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.
  2. The cecum or anus, especially of livestock.
  3. (slang) The human anus.
  4. (slang) A bribe.
    • 2006 December 21, Leader, “Poorly tackled”, in the Guardian‎[1]:
      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.
    • 2021 April 26, Corinna Norrick-Rühl, Christian Alexander Peter, Lena Schüler, ““Pay to Play” in the German Book Trade?”, in Publishing Research Quarterly, volume 37, →DOI, pages 241–254:
      Is this a case of mere ‘bungs’ (a form of bribery) at play in the book trade, a success bought with massive advertising effort and distribution through the author’s drugstore chain?
  5. The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bung-hole.
  6. (obsolete, slang) A sharper or pickpocket.
  7. (UK, slang, obsolete) The landlord of a public house.
    • 1878, Fun, volumes 27-28, page 11:
      "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!"
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

bung (third-person singular simple present bungs, present participle bunging, simple past and past participle bunged)

  1. (transitive) To plug, as with a bung.
    • 1810, Agricultural Surveys: Worcester (1810):
      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...
    • 2006, A. G. Payne, Cassell's Shilling Cookery:
      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.
  2. (UK, Australia, transitive, informal) To put, throw, or place something without care; to chuck.
    • 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 31:
      "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."
    • 1996, Stanley Booth, quoting Keith Richards, Keith‎[2], St. Martin's Publishing Group, →ISBN:
      Of course, the weird thing is that he found Marianne Faithfull at the same time and bunged it onto her, and it was a fucking hit, so already we're songwriters.
    • 2004, Bob Ashley, Food and cultural studies:
      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.
  3. (transitive) To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell.
    • 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
      [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. (transitive) To pass a bribe to (someone).
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Etymology 2

Borrowed from Yagara bang (“dead”).

Adjective

bung (not comparable)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Broken, not in working order; damaged; injured.
    • 1922, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Karen Oslund (introduction), The Worst Journey in the World, 2004, page 365,
      The evening we reached the glacier Bowers[Henry Robertson Bowers] wrote:
      […] My right eye has gone bung, and my left one is pretty dicky.
    • 1953, Eric Linklater, A Year of Space, page 206:
      ‘Morning Mrs. Weissnicht. I′ve just heard as how your washing-machine′s gone bung.’
    • 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 140:
      Happened to me the other day, I was there minding my own business when a trolley hit my bung foot at about Warp Nine speed.
    • 1997, Lin Van Hek, The Ballad of Siddy Church, page 219:
      It′s the signal box, the main switchboard, that′s gone bung!
    • 2006, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, 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.”
Derived terms

Etymology 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”).

Alternative forms

Noun

bung (plural bungs)

  1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A purse.
    • 1592, Robert Green, The Thirde & Last Part of Conny-catching, Bodleian Library (Malone 575), London: John Lane. Reprinted in 1923, Harrison, G. B. (ed.), The Bodley Head Quartos III, Plainstow, Great Britain: Curwen Press, p. 22
      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.
    • 1611, Thomas Middleton, “The Roaring Girl”, in Arthur Henry Bullen, editor, The Works of Thomas Middleton‎[3], volume 4, published 1885, act 5, scene 1, pages 128–129:
      Ben mort, shall you and I heave a bough, mill a ken, or nip a bung, and then we'll couch a hogshead under the ruffmans, and there you shall wap with me, and I'll niggle with you.
Derived terms
  • bung-nipper (“pickpocket”)

References

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *bunga, of uncertain origin: (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

  • Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵnos, nasalized variant of *bʰeh₂ǵos (“beech”);
  • earlier Proto-Albanian *bunka, from *bʰeu-n-ik-o-, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew(H)- (“to grow”);
  • Proto-Indo-European *bʰn̥ǵʰ- (“to swell, be thick”) with a shift in meaning such as to “grow tall” (compare Sanskrit बंहते (baṃhate, “to grow”)) or “thick trunk”.

All of the above are problematic. Compare Dutch bonk (“clump, lump”) and German Bunge (“swelling, lump; tuber”) in the latter two cases.

Noun

bung m (plural bungje, definite bungu, definite plural bungjet)

  1. sessile oak (Quercus petraea)

Hypernyms

Coordinate terms

Indonesian

Noun

bung (plural bung-bung)

  1. a father figure, figurative father
    Bung Karno ― Father Sukarno
  2. (colloquial, used in the vocative) A term of address for someone, typically a man; A dude, fella, mac
  3. (informal) Used to address a man whose name is unknown.

See also

Further reading

Malay

Pronunciation

  • (Johor-Selangor) IPA(key): /boŋ/
  • (Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /bʊŋ/
  • Rhymes: -oŋ

Noun

bung

  1. brother (older male sibling)

Synonyms

Palauan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /buŋ/

Etymology 1

From Pre-Palauan *buŋa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buŋa. Cognate with Malay bunga, Tagalog bunga.

Noun

bung

  1. flower
Inflection
Possessive forms of bung
singular plural
first inclusive — bngad
exclusive bngak bngmam
second bngam bngmiu
third bngal bngrir

Etymology 2

From Japanese 分 (fun, “minute”).

Noun

bung

  1. minute

References

  • bung in Palauan Language Online: Palauan-English Dictionary, at tekinged.com.
  • bung in Palauan-English Dictionary, at trussel2.com.
  • bung in Lewis S. Josephs, Edwin G. McManus, Masa-aki Emesiochel (1977) Palauan-English Dictionary, University Press of Hawaii, →ISBN, page 30.

Tày

Pronunciation

Noun

(Classifier: ăn) bung

  1. a type of slatted baskets to carry clothes and books
    Synonym: choóng

References

  • Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎[4] (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

Tok Pisin

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

bung

  1. To gather, meet
    • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:9:
      Bihain God i tok olsem, “Wara i stap aninit long skai i mas i go bung long wanpela hap tasol, bai ples drai i kamap.” Orait ples drai i kamap.
      →New International Version translation

Derived terms

Vietnamese

Etymology

Compare bùng.

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɓʊwŋ͡m˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɓʊwŋ͡m˧˧]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʔɓʊwŋ͡m˧˧]

Verb

bung

  1. to swell from inside out
  2. to burst
  3. (Central Vietnam) to steam, to simmer
    Synonyms: hầm, ninh

Derived terms

  • bung lụa
  • nở bung

Zyphe

Verb

bung

  1. to stoop, bend

References

  • Samson Alexander Lotven (2021) The Sound Systems of Zophei Dialects and Other Maraic Languages (Dissertation)‎[5]
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