Bung

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  • noun. A stopper, especially for the hole through which a cask, keg, or barrel is filled or emptied.
  • noun. A bunghole.
  • transitive verb. To close with a cork or stopper.
  • transitive verb. To injure or damage.
  • transitive verb. To fling; toss.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To stop the orifice of with a bung; close.
  • noun. A large cork or stopper for closing the hole in the side of a cask through which it is filled.
  • noun. The hole or orifice in a cask through which it is filled; a bung-hole.
  • noun. A pickpocket; a sharper.
  • noun. A brewer.
  • noun. A pile of seggars or setters in a porcelain-kiln.
  • To beat severely; exhaust by hard blows or strenuous effort; bruise; maul: used chiefly in the phrase bunged up: as, he was all bunged up in the fight; the day's work has completely bunged me up.
  • Dead.
  • To fail; go to smash; collapse; become bankrupt: as, the bank has gone bung.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The large stopper of the orifice in the bilge of a cask.
  • noun. The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.
  • noun. A sharper or pickpocket.
  • transitive verb. To stop, as the orifice in the bilge of a cask, with a bung; to close; -- with up.
  • transitive verb. to use up, as by bruising or over exertion; to exhaust or incapacitate for action.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Broken, not in working order.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A cecum or anus, especially of a slaughter animal.
  • noun. A bribe.
  • verb. To plug, as with a bung.
  • verb. To put somewhere without care; chuck.
  • verb. To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell.
  • verb. To pass a bribe.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. close with a cork or stopper
  • verb. give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on
  • noun. a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask
  • Word Usage
    "When the hissing noise subsides, the bung is driven in firmly, and a little hole is made in the head of the cask, near the bung, which is stopped with a wooden peg."
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    Form
    bunged  bunging  go bung  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    close  gift  give  plug  present  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Sung  Young  among  clung  dung  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    India rubber  Oman  a'r  boxwood  bronc  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bunghole  close  stopper  vent  
    verb-form
    bunged  bunging  bungs