funge

From Old French *funge, from Latin fungus.

funge (plural funges)

1. (obsolete) A fungus.
2. (obsolete) A fool or simpleton.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 2:

     Be not ashamed of thy birth then, thou art a gentleman all the world over, and shalt be honoured, whenas he, strip him of his fine clothes, dispossess him of his wealth, is a funge […]

Back-formation from fungible, as in non-fungible token.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /fʌnd͜ʒ/

funge (third-person singular simple present funges, present participle funging, simple past and past participle funged)

1. (transitive, economics) to substitute for a practically equivalent good or unit
   1. (intransitive, economics) to be substituted thus
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:funge.
2. (transitive, humorous, cryptocurrencies) To steal an NFT; to copy the image or other data associated with the NFT.
   • 2022 January 2, “I Will Funge These Tokens If It's the Last Thing I Do”, in Points In Case:

     The most expensive NFT to date was sold for $91.8 million. If that doesn’t make you want to throw up, regain your composure, then enlist in the noble crusade to funge tokens until the day you die, then I’m afraid you’re already a willing prisoner to the blockchain and my sworn enemy.

   • 2022 February 4, Aiden Walker, “15 Freshly Funged Memes About NFTs”, in Know Your Meme:

     Look, here's 15 memes about non-fungible tokens, and I guess technically the memes themselves have been funged because they all come from places on the internet, but really, that's getting into the weeds.

   • 2022 February 10, dmonea, “nft-stealer”, in GitHub:

     Python script to Funge NFTs. It scrapes OpenSea for a given list of NFT collections and downloads a certain number of NFTs from each collection or the entire collections.

3. (humorous, cryptocurrencies) Euphemistic form of fuck.
   • 2022 February 12, Blake Montgomery, “NFT Shop Flooded With Fakes Stops Nearly All Transactions”, in The Daily Beast‎^[1]:

     GET FUNGED

   • 2022 July 25, Ana Valens, “I Can’t Get Over VTuber Ironmouse Making Fun of NFTs”, in The Mary Sue‎^[2]:

     Luckily, MSNBC reported in May that NFTs are in low demand and high supply, which means the entire non-fungible market is non-fungibly funged up.

4. (humorous, cryptocurrencies) A meaningless nonce word used to make fun of NFTs.
   • 2021 March 12, Nick Miller, “The world’s gone mad for NFTs. But what are they?”, in Sydney Morning Herald‎^[3]:

     Why is it non-fungible? Why don’t I want it to be funged?

   • 2021 April 16, Rachel Rascoe, “Faster Than Sound: Falling Hard for Sasha & the Valentines”, in The Austin Chronicle‎^[4]:

     True Love Will Funge You in the End

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funge

1. alternative form of funke

• “funge” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /ˈfun.d͡ʒe/
• Rhymes: -undʒe
• Hyphenation: fùn‧ge

funge

1. third-person singular present indicative of fungere

funge

1. vocative singular of fungus

funge

1. inflection of fungir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative