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▪ I. bunk, n.1|bʌŋk|
[Of unknown etymology; possibly related to bank: cf. bunker n.1 Skeat compares OSw. bunke boarding to protect the cargo of a ship from the weather (Ihre). Cf. also bulk n.2]
1. a. A box or recess in a ship's cabin, railway-carriage, lodging-house, etc., serving for a bed; a sleeping-berth. Freq. one of two or more beds arranged in a tier.
1758L. Lyon in A. Tomlinson Mil. Jrnls. (1855) 37 We made us up 2 straw bunks for 4 of us to lay in. 1780W. Heath Let. 2 Feb. in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. (1905) V. 28 The bunks and lineing of the bomb proof were taken out. 1810Deb. Congress (1853) XXI. App. 2448, 20 bunks at $3.50 each [among expenses in military hospital, New Orleans]. 1815Chron. in Ann. Reg. 58/2 He suddenly fell back upon his bunk. 1859R. Burton Centr. Afr. in Jrnl. Geog. Soc. XXIX. 47 Some houses have a second story like a ship's bunk. 1862B. Taylor Home & Abr. Ser. ii. IV. 363 The Summit House..where travellers can pass the night in comfortable bunks. 1866Harvard Mem. Biog., Peabody I. 165 At the end of the train, a blue car..one end of which is decorated with bunks and shelves, which serve as sleeping apartments. 1879Dixon Brit. Cyprus ix. 79, I am lying in a bunk, on board the flag-ship.
b. attrib., as bunk-car, bunk-room; bunk-bed, a piece of furniture comprising two bunks; bunk-house, a house where workmen, etc., are lodged.
1951Catal. Exhibits, Festival of Britain 127/2 Bunk beds. 1967Observer 21 May 30/7 Bunk beds that split into single beds.
1894P. L. Ford P. Stirling xl. 236 By the light, one of the superintendents found the bunk cars gone.
1877R. W. Raymond 8th Rep. Mines 332 Bunk-house. 1901S. E. White Claim Jumpers xxii. 274 The old ‘bunk house’ now accomodated a good-sized gang of miners. 1952H. Innes Campbell's Kingdom i. iii. 50 This is bunkhouse for men working on road.
1848Baker Glance at N.Y. 24 De way de boys laid out of de old bunk-room was sinful. 1957J. Masters Far, Far Mountain Peak 110 Someone was scratching at the door of the women's bunkroom.
c. spec. The lodging of a student at St. Andrews university. Hence attrib. in bunk-wife, the (or a) keeper of a ‘bunk’; landlady.
1891R. F. Murray Scarlet Gown 58 Though rents be heavy and bunks be few..Never take rooms in a corner house. 1936St. Andrews Cit. 5 Sept. 12/4 Quiet bunk required by student. 1937Ibid. 27 Feb. 7/3 Those bunk-wives who refuse students any concession.
2. ‘A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to enable it to sustain the end of heavy pieces of timber. Maine (U.S.).’ Bartlett.
1770M. Patten Diary (1903) 238, I hewed a bunk and a Slat for my brors loging Sled. 1902S. E. White Blazed Trail 72 These sleighs, with..bunks nine feet in width for the reception of logs.
▪ II. † bunk, n.2 Obs.
Also bunken, bunkins.
[Cf. bunk ‘nascaptha, an odoriferous root’, given as Arabic in Johnson's Pers.-Ar.-Eng. Dict., 1852; not in Freytag or Lane.]
A plant (or root) yielding a drug.
1660Act 12 Chas. II, iv. Sched., Bunkins, Holliwortles, or pistolachia. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Bunk, or Bunken, a word frequently occurring in the writings of the Arabian physicians..it was an aromatic root used in cardiac, stomachic, and carminative compositions. 1775Ash Bunk, Bunken (in medicine), the leucacantha.
▪ III. bunk, n.3
[f. bunk v.2]
In slang phr. to do a bunk: to make an escape; to depart hurriedly.
c1870Broadside Ball., ‘Peck's Bad Boy’ (Farmer), The keeper tried to catch him, but the bad boy did a bunk. 1905E. Candler Unveiling of Lhasa xiii. 256 The old bloke's done a bunk. 1919J. B. Morton Barber of Putney ix, ‘All right, son,’ said Curly. ‘They [sc. Germans] done a bunk.’ 1921G. B. Shaw Back to Methuselah iv. iii. 199 If my legs would support me I'd just do a bunk straight for the ship.
▪ IV. bunk, n.4 slang (orig. U.S.).
[Abbrev. of bunkum.]
Humbug, nonsense.
1900Ade More Fables 15 He surmised that the Bunk was about to be Handed to him. 1916H. Ford in Chicago Tribune 25 May 10/1 History is more or less bunk. 1930Punch 5 Mar. 265/3 No tempting blurb, no critics' bunk Can animate this mass of junk. 1932W. S. Maugham For Services Rendered iii. 70 It's all bunk what they're saying to you, about honour and patriotism and glory, bunk, bunk, bunk.
▪ V. bunk, v.1
[f. bunk n.1]
intr. To sleep in a bunk; hence, to occupy rough sleeping quarters, camp out. Also, to bunk it. (colloq., chiefly U.S.) Also to bunk down: to go to bed, retire to bed.
1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast viii, We turned in to bunk and mess with the crew forward. 1850H. C. Watson Camp-Fires Revol. 250 It's about time for us to bunk. 1861C. Anderson Okavango Riv. xxvii. 317 They would not let us..sleep in their huts; we had to bunk it out on the sand. 1884J. G. Bourke Snake Dance v. 53 My comrade and myself bunked together in the double bed. 1885Pall Mall G. 29 Aug. 61 The Orientals are a ‘bunking’ people. 1940War Illustr. 2 Feb. 59/2, I..was snugly bunked down when the explosion happened. 1965M. Shadbolt Among Cinders ii. 9, I was wondering if this might be a decent place to bunk down for the night.
▪ VI. bunk, v.2 colloq. and slang.|bʌŋk|
1. To be off. Also const. about.
1877E. Peacock N.W. Lincoln. Gloss. (E.D.S.), Bunk, to run away, to make off. 1880Besant & Rice Seamy Side ix. 67 Mark my words, Bunk it is. 1881Leicestersh. Gloss. (E.D.S.), Bunk..budge! be off! apage! 1949R. Aldington Strange Life of C. Waterton xiii. 160 A schoolboy prefers to bunk about the fields..rather than work in class.
2. trans. To expel from school. So bunked ppl. a., expelled.
1890Farmer Slang I. 385/2 Bunk, (Wellington College)—To expel (from the school). c1898Wyndham Lewis Lett. (1963) 6 A sixth (form boy) has been bunked (expelled) for stealing out of the shop in town. 1902W. S. Maugham Mrs. Craddock xxviii. 283, I was bunked from Rugby. Well, that wasn't my fault... I'm blowed if I was worse than anybody else. 1923H. Walpole Jeremy & Hamlet i. 21 A chap called Bates got bunked for stealing. |