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▪ I. bung, n.1|bʌŋ|
Also 5 bunge, 6 boung(e.
[Cf. MDu. bonghe in same sense, said by Franck to be a regular dial. form for *bonde, whence the recorded MDu. bonne, mod.Du. bom.
The Du. word corresponds to MHG. punt, punte; the synonymous F. bonde is supposed to be adopted from some Teut. lang. It has been conjectured that the source of all these words is the L. puncta in the sense of ‘hole’, and that the synonymous OHG., MHG. spunt, mod.G. spund, Du. spon are originally the same word.]
1. A stopper; spec. a large cork stopper for the ‘mouth’ of a cask, i.e. the hole in the bulge by which it is filled.
c1440Promp. Parv. 55 Bunge of a wesselle, as a tonne, barelle, botelle, or other lyke. 1530Palsgr. 202/1 Bung of a tonne or pype. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. iv. §7 (1681) 54 Put into a vessel, and stopt with a Bung and Rag. 1769Mrs. Raffald Eng. Housekpr. (1778) 329 Take out the bung. 1830M. Donovan Dom. Econ. I. 279. c 1860 H. Stuart Seaman's Catech. 64 They are stowed bung up.
2. transf. The ‘mouth’ of a cask; the bung-hole. (Still dial.)
1571Digges Pantom. iii. xiii. S i b, Take youre rodde..and let it descende perpendicularly downe thorough the bung. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. viii. 274 Stopping the bung of the Vessel. 1775Phil. Trans. LXV. 103 A small cask of rum, with a large bung.
3. a. Naut. A nickname for the master's assistant who superintends the serving of the grog. [Cf. bung-starter.]
1863Man-of-War in Cornh. Mag. Feb., To..see the grog served out..the discharge of which [duty] has invested them..with the title of Bungs. 1865Pall Mall G. 19 May 1 The second master and master's assistant..are, or used to be..known as ‘bungs’ in the service.
b. A brewer, or landlord of a public house. Also, the brewing interest (as in politics); hence attrib. or as adj., favouring the brewers or their interests in politics.
1860Hotten Dict. Slang (ed. 2), Bung, the landlord of a public-house. 1884Graphic 23 Feb. 170/1 That Sir Wilfrid Lawson had turned ‘Bung’, and applied for a spirit licence. a1889Truth (Barrère & Leland), Within the last few years several bungs have been made Peers. 1891Pall Mall Gaz. 31 Aug. 2/3 It is true that the temperance organizations rendered yeoman service, but as a consequence the ‘bung’ party put forth its full strength on the other side. 1910Daily Chron. 1 Feb. 1/4 Since the power of ‘Bung’ has been so demonstrated in this constituency. 1969C. Drummond Odds on Death viii. 169 There's a pub in North London which might help: the bung is named Scoot.
4. [Perh. not the same word.]
a. A bundle of hemp-stalks.
b. Pottery: A pile of ‘seggars’ or clay cases in which fine stoneware is baked.
1704Worlidge Dict. Rust. et Urb. s.v. Watering, To lay the Bungs (which are bundles of Stalks) in Water. 1832G. Porter Porcelain 57 Each of these piles [of seggars] as it stands, is called a bung. 1875Ure Dict. Arts III. 614 The ‘setters’ for china plates..are ‘reared’ in the oven in ‘bungs’.
†5. = bum n.1 Obs. rare.
1691New Disc. Old Intreague xxviii. 6.
6. Comb., as bung-cloth; bung eye Austral., a form of ophthalmia caused by flies; bung-hole, the hole in a cask, which is closed with the bung; † transf. the anus (obs.); bung-knife, ? a knife for cutting bungs; bung-starter, ‘a stave shaped like a bat, which, applied to either side of the bung, causes it to start out; also a soubriquet for the captain of the hold; also a name given to the master's assistant serving his apprenticeship for hold duties’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.); bung-stave, that stave of a cask in which is the bung-hole.
1882Nares Seamansh. (ed. 6) 146 Bungs and *bung cloths.
1933Bulletin (Sydney) 13 Sept. 23/2 Epidemic ophthalmia (or ‘pink eye’ or ‘*bung eye’), an acute inflammation of the eyelids lasts only a few weeks. 1966‘J. Hackston’ Father clears Out 98 The ordinary fly..arranged, with punctilious regularity, that the school received its full summer quota of bung eyes.
1571Digges Pantom. iii. xii. S b, The diagonall..lynes from the *bung holes to the..lowest parte of either base. 1611Cotgr., Cul de cheval, a small and ouglie fish, or excrescence of the Sea, resembling a mans bung-hole, and called the red Nettle [= Sea Anemone]. 1871Tyndall Fragm. Sc. (ed. 6) II. xii. 255 A cask with a very large bunghole.
1592Greene Upst. Courtier (1871) 40 By his side a skein like a brewers *boung-knife.
1860H. Stuart Seaman's Catech. 64 The *bung stave is known by the rivets of the hoops being on that stave. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 144 Its bung-stave is uppermost.
▪ II. † bung, n.2 Thieves' Cant. Obs.
Also 6 bong, boong, 6–7 boung.
[Origin unknown: the resemblance to OE. pung purse (also Fris. pung ‘purse’ in Koolman), is worthy of notice. Cf. quot. 1592 in bung v. 3.]
a. A purse.
b. A pick-pocket. Also in comb., as bung-nipper, a pick-pocket.
1567Harman Caveat 83/1 Bunge, a pursse. 1592Def. Coneycatching (1859) 4 Some..would venture all the byte in their boung at dice. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 138 You Cut-purse Rascall, you filthy Bung. 1611Dekker Roar. Girle Wks. 1873 III. 217 Shal you and I nip a bung? shall you and I cut a purse? a1658Cleveland Cl. Vind. (1677) 96 An Authentick Gypsie, that nips your Bung with a Canting Ordinance. 1659Caterpillers of Nat. Anat., Bung-Nibber, or Cut-purse = a pickpocket. 1725New Cant. Dict., Bung, a Purse, Pocket, or Fob{ddd}Bung-nippers, Cut-purses.
▪ III. bung, n.3 slang.
A lie, falsehood.
1882A. M. Brookfield Autob. Thomas Allen I. v. 61 ‘And for having told a bung,’ said Fisher. ‘A beastly bung,’ cried all the judges. 1913M. Baring Lost Diaries 8 Mac reported him for telling bungs.
▪ IV. bung, n.4 Criminals' slang.
[Origin unknown.]
A bribe. Cf. bung v.3
1958F. Norman Bang to Rights iii. 149 ‘Is'nt it a coinsidence that Stanley Golsberg's shop was screwed the other day, and a load of cloth was nicked?’ ‘Alright so how much is the bung?’ Asked Solie. ‘Well lets say a fifty and we did'nt see a thing.’ 1966J. Ashford Consider Evidence vii. 67 What's the matter? Not being offered enough bung?
▪ V. bung, a.1 Sc.
‘Tipsy, fuddled; a low word’ (Jam.)
1721Ramsay Epistle to R.H.B. Wks. 1848 III. 62 When with wine he's bung. a1758― Poems (1844) 84 She..chang'd her mind, whan bung.
▪ VI. bung, a.2 Austral. and N.Z. slang.
Also formerly bong.
[Austral. Aboriginal word.]
a. Dead.
b. Bankrupt.
c. Ruined, useless. Also in phr. to go bung, to die; to fail; to go bankrupt.
[1847J. D. Lang Cooksland x. 430 A place called Umpie Bung, or the dead houses.] 1882W. A. J. Boyd Old Colonials 73 Just afore you hands 'im [sc. the horse] over and gets the money, he goes bong on you [i.e. he dies]. 1885Austral. Printers' Keepsake 40 His musical talent had ‘gone bung’. 1885H. Finch-Hatton Adv. Australia x. 142 Directly me bung (die) me jump up white feller. 1893Argus 15 Apr. 13/2 (Morris), All flesh is grass, says the preacher,..And we gaze on a bank in the evening, and lo, in the morn 'tis bung. 1893Melbourne Herald 25 Apr. 2/4 (Morris), One member of the mischief-making brotherhood wrote the words ‘gone bung’ under a notice on the Government Savings Bank. 1902W. Satchell Land of Lost vii. 47 The merchant princes who have gone bung, and the geniuses who have gone bunger. 1930A. Groom Merry Christmas xxvi. 209 The telephone line's been mostly bung and broke since, but I got through. 1948L. Macfarlane This N.Z. xiv. 137 We were bung, completely down and out. 1952G. Wilson Julien Ware viii. 68 ‘Why aren't you playing?’..‘Got a bung ankle. Don't want to hurt it again.’
▪ VII. bung, v.1|bʌŋ|
[f. bung n.1]
trans.
1. To stop with a bung; also with down, up.
1616Surfl. & Markh. Countr. Farm 431 You must bung it vp very close. 1741Hanbury in Phil. Trans. XLI. 674 Unctuous Clay, such as Brewers use to bong their Vessels. 1835Marryat Pacha ii, I had bunged up the cask. 1836Penny Cycl. V. 405/1 The beer [should be] well flattened before bunging down in the casks.
2. transf. and fig. To stop, close; to shut up. Now chiefly in pugilistic slang, to bung up the eyes.
1589Pappe w. Hatchet A iiij, These mutiners..must haue their mouthes bungd with iests. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. II. 294 My mouth was bung'd vp, I durst not speake. 1655W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. xii. §3 (1669) 356/2 Resolve to bung up thine ear from all by-discourse. 1755Connoisseur No. 53 (1774) II. 139 In the vulgar idiom Bunging your eye. 1829Marryat F. Mildmay v, With his eyes bunged up and his face..swollen.
3. To shut up, enclose, as in a bunged cask.
1592Nashe P. Penilesse (ed. 2) 23 a, Bung vp all the welth of the Land in their snap-haunce bags. 1775Garrick in Colman Posth. Lett. (1820) 308 Henderson play'd Regulus; & you would have wish'd him bung'd up with his nails, before y⊇ End of y⊇ 3d act. 1794J. Wolcott (P. Pindar) Celebration Wks. III. 419 Chain'd be the tempests, and well bung'd the rain.
▪ VIII. bung, v.2 slang (orig. dial.).
[Echoic.]
trans. To throw (violently); to send; to put forcibly. Also with in. Also fig.
1825Jamieson, To bung, to throw with violence, Aberd. 1835Sessions' Paper Cent. Criminal Court May 37, I heard one say to the other, ‘Bill, bung 'em,’ and one of them chucked the beads down. 1839Ibid. Mar. 889 The policeman says that ‘bung it’ means ‘Put it back’. 1903Daily Chron. 8 Dec. 9/2 ‘We are police officers. What have you in that parcel?’ Stevens replied, ‘I don't know; I have just had it bunged on to me.’ 1913C. Mackenzie Sinister St. I. ii. ii. 174 Let's bung these sticks into the sea. 1923Glasgow Herald 29 Oct. 12 The cinema..can..take the skeletons of ‘Macbeth’, [etc.] and make very entertaining films of them with..a good deal of photographed natural scenery bunged in. 1933Wodehouse Mulliner Nights iv. 139 Telling the butler to bung Mr. Mulliner into the drawing-room and lock up all the silver. 1944R. Lehmann Ballad & Source 222 We've torn them in pieces and bunged them into a giant's stew-pot.
▪ IX. bung, v.3 Criminals' slang.
[Origin unknown; perh. f. prec.]
trans. To bribe; to pay; to tip. Cf. bung n.4
1950P. Tempest Lag's Lexicon 27 ‘Did he bung you?’ = did he give you a tip? ‘I will let you have some grub if you will bung me’ = I will let you have some food if you will pay me. 1963T. & P. Morris Pentonville 378 To ‘bung’ a person is to give him a fixed amount of tobacco each week to bring regular supplies—of anything. 1966J. Ashford Consider Evidence i. 5 He needed it [sc. the money]..for bunging the cozzpots if anything went wrong. 1967J. Burke Till Death us do Part i. 24 Don't forget the solicitors..They'll want bunging.
▪ X. bung, adv.
[Cf. bung v.2 and bang v.1 8.]
In or into the very middle of things; = smack v.2 7 b.
1899Kipling Stalky 132 They have babies and teething and measles and all that sort of thing right bung in the school. Ibid. 154, I used to go bung off to sleep on a form sometimes. 1940‘N. Shute’ Landfall 25 ‘Where was the ship, anyway?’ ‘Bung in the middle of Matheson's zone.’ |