bung

See also:bụng

English

Woodenbungsfor wine barrels

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈbʌŋ/

• Audio(General Australian):

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• Rhymes:-ʌŋ

Etymology 1

From MedievalDutchbonge,bonneorbonghe(“stopper”),or perhaps fromFrenchbonde,which may itself be either ofGermanicorigin or fromProto-Celtic*bunda—either way probably frompuncta(“hole”),the feminine singular form ofLatinpunctus,perfect passive participle ofpungō(“pierce into, prick”).

Noun

bung(pluralbungs)

1. Astopper,alternative to acork,often made ofrubber,used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of abottle,vat, a hole in avesseletc.
   • 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 thebungin.

   • 2008,Christine Carroll,The Senator's Daughter:

     Andre pulled thebungfrom the top of a barrel, applied a glass tube with a suction device, and withdrew a pale, almost greenish liquid.

2. Thececumoranus,especially of aslaughter animal.
3. (slang)The human anus.
4. (slang)Abribe.
   • 2006December 21, Leader, “Poorly tackled”, inthe 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 illegalbungs.

5. The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled;bunghole.
6. (obsolete,slang)Asharperorpickpocket.
   • c.1596–1599(date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth,[…]”,inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies[…](First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard,andEd[ward]Blount,published1623,→OCLC,[Act II, scene iv]:

     You filthybung,away.

7. (UK,slang,obsolete)Thelandlordof apublic house.
   • 1878,Fun,volumes27-28,page11:

     "Well, sir, I haven't got one," said the landlord, "or you should have it directly."[…]"Couldyou oblige me with such a thing as a postage stamp? "" No, "said theBung;"don't keep 'em!"

Derived terms

• bung-hole
• bungstarter
• on the bung

Translations

stopper

• Bulgarian:канелка(bg)f(kanelka),запушалка(bg)f(zapušalka)
• Czech:zátka(cs)f
• Finnish:tulppa(fi)
• French:bonde(fr)m,bondon(fr)m,bouchon(fr)m
• Galician:zapaf,zapónm,tapón(gl)m,baldón(gl)m
• German:Stöpsel(de)m,Korken(de)m
• Greek:

  Ancient:βύσμαn(búsma)

• Maori:puru,pangu,kōremu,kāremu
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:spunsn(for barrels),kork(no)m(for bottles)

• Ottoman Turkish:قپاق(kapak),مانطار(mantar)
• Polish:szpunt(pl)m
• Portuguese:batoque(pt)m
• Russian:пробка(ru)(probka)
• Spanish:tapónm,corcho(es)m
• Swahili:kizibo
• Swedish:kork(sv)c

cecum or anus of a slaughter animal

bribe—seebribe

Verb

bung(third-person singular simple presentbungs,present participlebunging,simple past and past participlebunged)

1. (transitive)Toplug,as with a bung.
   • 1810,Agricultural Surveys: Worcester (1810):

     It has not yet been ascertained, which is the precise time when it becomes indispensable tobungthe 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,bungthe hole closely, and leave the wine untouched for twelve months.

2. (UK,Australia,transitive,informal)Toputorthrowsomething without care; tochuck.
   • 1996,Stanley Booth, quotingKeith Richards,Keith‎^[2],St. Martin's Publishing Group,→ISBN:

     Of course, the weird thing is that he found Marianne Faithfull at the same time andbungedit 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,bungit in the microwave and make do.

3. (transitive)Tobatter,bruise;to cause tobulgeorswell.
   • 1846October 1 –1848April 1,Charles Dickens,Dombey and Son,London:Bradbury and Evans,[…],published1848,→OCLC:

     [T]he Chicken had been tapped, andbunged,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 abribeto (someone).

Derived terms

• bung it on
• bung on
• bung out
• bung up
• rebung
• unbung

Translations

to plug

• Bulgarian:запушвам(bg)(zapušvam)
• Finnish:tulpata(fi)
• French:boucher(fr),bondonner(fr)
• Galician:zapar,tapar(gl)
• Maori:puru
• Russian:закупоривать(ru)impf(zakuporivatʹ)

to heave

• Finnish:nakata(fi)

to batter

• Finnish:antaa turpaan
• Russian:поставить синякpf(postavitʹ sinjak)

to pass a bribe

• Bulgarian:подкупвам(bg)(podkupvam)
• Finnish:lahjoa(fi)

Etymology 2

Borrowed fromYagarabang(“dead”).

Adjective

bung(notcomparable)

1. (Australia,New Zealand,slang)Broken,not in working order.
   • 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 gonebung,and my left one is pretty dicky.

   • 1953,Eric Linklater,A Year of Space,page206:

     ‘Morning Mrs. Weissnicht. I′ve just heard as how your washing-machine′s gonebung.’

   • 1997,Lin Van Hek,The Ballad of Siddy Church,page219:

     It′s the signal box, the main switchboard, that′s gonebung!

   • 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 gonebungwith this country.”

Derived terms

• bung eye
• bung-full
• go bung

Etymology 3

Frombouget(“wallet, purse or bag”),fromMiddle Englishbogett,bouget,bowgette(“leather pouch”),fromOld Frenchbougette,diminutive ofbouge(“leather bag, wallet”),fromLate Latinbulga(“wallet, purse”),fromGaulishbolgā,fromProto-Celtic*bolgos(“sack, bag, stomach”),fromProto-Indo-European*bʰólǵʰ-os(“skin bag, bolster”),from*bʰelǵʰ-(“to swell”).

Alternative forms

• bong,bonge,bounge

Noun

bung(pluralbungs)

1. (obsolete,UK,thieves' cant)Apurse.
   • 1611,Thomas Middleton,“The Roaring Girl”,in Arthur Henry Bullen, editor,The Works of Thomas Middleton‎^[3],volume 4, published1885,act 5, scene 1, pages128–129:

     Ben mort, shall you and I heave a bough, mill a ken, or nip abung,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

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “bung”,inOnline Etymology Dictionary.
• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary,Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
• Australian National Dictionary,1988
• Macquarie Dictionary,Second edition, 1991
• Macquarie Slang Dictionary,Revised edition, 2000
• Albert Barrère andCharles G[odfrey] Leland,compilers and editors (1889–1890) “bung”, inA Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant[…],volumeI (A–K),Edinburgh:[…]The Ballantyne Press,→OCLC,page117.
• John S[tephen] Farmer,compiler (1890) “bung”,inSlang and Its Analogues Past and Present.[…],volume I, [London:[…]Thomas Poulter and Sons][…],→OCLC,page383.
• “bungv.¹”,inGreen’s Dictionary of Slang,Jonathon Green,2016–present

Albanian

Etymology

FromProto-Albanian*bunga,of uncertain origin:(Canthis⁽⁺⁾etymology besourced?)

• 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” (compareSanskritबंहते(baṃhate,“to grow”)) or “thick trunk”.

All of the above are problematic. CompareDutchbonk(“clump, lump”)andGermanBunge(“swelling, lump; tuber”)in the latter two cases.

Noun

bungm(pluralbungje,definitebungu,definite pluralbungjet)

1. sessile oak(Quercus petraea)

Hypernyms

• dushk

Coordinate terms

• ilqe,lis,qarr,shpardh

Indonesian

Noun

bung(first-person possessivebungku,second-person possessivebungmu,third-person possessivebungnya)

1. Afather figure,figurativefather.

   BungKarno―FatherSukarno

2. (colloquial,used in the vocative)A term ofaddressfor someone, typically aman;Adude,fella,mac
3. (informal)Used to address a man whose name is unknown.

See also

• abang
• ayah(“birth father”)
• kawan
• pak

Further reading

• “bung”inKamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia,Jakarta:Agency for Language Development and Cultivation–Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia,2016.

Malay

Pronunciation

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

Noun

bung

1. brother(older male sibling)

Synonyms

• abang(bang)
• kakak
• engko
• nana
• uda

Palauan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/buŋ/

Etymology 1

From Pre-Palauan*buŋa,fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*buŋa.Cognate withMalaybunga,Tagalogbunga.

Noun

bung

1. flower

Inflection

Possessives of bung

		Singular	Plural
First	inclusive		bngad
	exclusive	bngak	bngmam
Second		bngam	bngmiu
Third		bngal	bngrir

Etymology 2

FromJapanesePhân(fun,“minute”).

Noun

bung

1. minute

References

• bunginPalauan Language Online: Palauan-English Dictionary,attekinged.com.
• bunginPalauan-English Dictionary,attrussel2.com.
• bunginLewis S. Josephs, Edwin G. McManus, Masa-aki Emesiochel (1977)Palauan-English Dictionary,University Press of Hawaii,→ISBN,page30.

Tày

Pronunciation

• (Thạch An–Tràng Định)IPA^(key):[ɓʊwŋ͡m˧˥]
• (Trùng Khánh)IPA^(key):[ɓʊwŋ͡m˦]

Noun

(classifierăn)bung

1. a type ofslattedbasketsto carryclothesandbooks

   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

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Verb

bung

1. Togather,meet
   • 1989,Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin,Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea,Jenesis1:9:

     Bihain God i tok olsem, “Wara i stap aninit long skai i mas i gobunglong wanpela hap tasol, bai ples drai i kamap.” Orait ples drai i kamap.

     →New International Version translation

Derived terms

• bungim
• bungples

Vietnamese

Etymology

Comparebùng.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

bung

1. toswellfrom inside out
2. toburst
3. (Central Vietnam)tosteam,tosimmer

   Synonyms:hầm,ninh

Derived terms

Derived terms

• bung lụa
• nở bung