| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  b ng |
| NOUN: | 1. A stopper especially for the hole through which a cask, keg, or barrel is filled or emptied. 2. A bunghole. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: bunged, bung·ing, bungs
1. To close with or as if with a cork or stopper. 2. Informal To injure or damage: fell on skis and bunged up my leg. 3. Chiefly British To fling; toss: “The Hungarian director bungs star Klaus Maria Brandauer once more into the breaches of past Teuton history” (Nigel Andrews). | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English bunge, from Middle Dutch bonge, from Late Latin p ncta, hole, from Latin, feminine past participle of pungere, to prick. See peuk- in Appendix I.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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