bungn.1
/bʌŋ/, U.S. /bəŋ/ 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.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > [noun] > closure for a vessel, tube, etc. > a bung or plug
bungc1440
tampiona1475
peg1593
plug1618
picket1868
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 55 Bunge of a wesselle, as a tonne, barelle, botelle, or other lyke.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 202/1 Bung of a tonne or pype.
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) iv. §7. 54 Put into a vessel, and stopt with a Bung and Rag.
1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper xv. 309 Take out the Bung.
1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. I. viii. 279 The bungs are put in tight.
c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 64 They are stowed bung up.
2. transferred. The ‘mouth’ of a cask; the bung-hole.‘Still dial.’ ( N.E.D.)
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > bung-, plug-, or tap-hole
bung?a1560
bung-hole?a1560
tap-hole1594
plug hole1743
?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) iii. xiii. sig. S i v Take youre rodde..and let it descende perpendicularly downe thorough the bung.
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician viii. 274 Stopping the bung of the Vessel.
1775 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 65 103 A small cask of rum, with a large bung.
3.
a. Nautical. A nickname for the master's assistant who superintends the serving of the grog. [Compare bung-starter.]
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > one dealing with provisions or distribution of
stewardc1450
scaffmaster1555
steward's mate1708
Jack of the Dust1821
pantry boy1839
Jimmy Ducks1849
bung1863
Jack Dusty1915
1863 Cornhill Mag. Feb. 183 The second master and master's assistants..see the grog served out—an important duty, the discharge of which has invested them..with the title of Bungs.
1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 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 attributive or as adj. , favouring the brewers or their interests in politics.
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the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > [noun] > inn or tavern keeping > innkeeper
tappera1000
tapsterc1000
wifeOE
taverner1340
gannekerc1380
tippler1396
alewifec1400
vintnerc1430
alehouse-keeperc1440
ale-taker1454
innholder1463
cellarman1547
ale draper?1593
pint pot1598
ale-man1600
nick-pot1602
tavern-keeper1611
beer-monger1622
kaniker1630
ordinary keeper1644
padrone1670
tap-lash?1680
ale-dame1694
public house keeper1704
bar-keeper1712
publican1728
tavern-man1755
Boniface1795
knight of the spigot1821
licensed victualler1824
thermopolite1832
bar-keep1846
saloon-keeper1849
posadero1851
Wirt1858
bung1860
changer1876
patron1878
bar-tender1883
soda-jerker1883
bar steward1888
pub-keeper1913
1860 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang (ed. 2) Bung, the landlord of a public-house.
1884 Graphic 23 Feb. 170/1 That Sir Wilfrid Lawson had turned ‘Bung’, and applied for a spirit licence.
a1889 Truth (Barrère & Leland) Within the last few years several bungs have been made Peers.
1891 Pall 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.
1910 Daily Chron. 1 Feb. 1/4 Since the power of ‘Bung’ has been so demonstrated in this constituency.
1969 C. Drummond Odds on Death viii. 169 There's a pub in North London which might help: the bung is named Scoot.
4. [Perhaps not the same word.]
a. A bundle of hemp-stalks.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > vegetable fibre > hemp > bundle of
bung1717
pigc1860
1717 Dict. Rusticum (ed. 2) at Watering To lay the Bungs (which are bundles of Stalks) in Water.
b. Pottery: A pile of ‘saggars’ or clay cases in which fine stoneware is baked.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > pottery manufacturing equipment > [noun] > case for protecting during firing > pile of
bung1832
1832 G. R. Porter Treat. Manuf. Porcelain & Glass 57 Each of these piles [of saggars] as it stands, is called a bung.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 614 The ‘setters’ for china plates..are ‘reared’ in the oven in ‘bungs’.
ΚΠ
1691 D. Defoe New Discov. Old Intreague 30 If Bow Bells for Whiggish Joys are rung, The jangling Mettal must salute his Bung.
Compounds
C1. Various attributive uses of sense 1.
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1847 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Bung-drawer, a wooden mallet..for taking the bung out of a cask (Local).
1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 406/1 Bung-borer (Coopering), a conical auger for reaming out a bung-hole. Bung-cutter, a machine for cutting bungs... Bung-vent, a passage for admitting air through the bung of a cask, to allow a free flow of liquid from the tap.
1876 Catal. Special Loan Coll. Sci. Apparatus S. Kensington Mus. § 10 For finding the bung diameter and diagonal of a cask.
1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. Bung Bucket, also known as a velinche, water thief, thief-tube, etc... Bung Bush, more correctly, bung-hole bush... Bung Lathe, a lathe for turning taper bungs.
C2. General attributive.
bung-cloth n.
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1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 146 Bungs and bung cloths.
C3.
bung eye n. Australian a form of ophthalmia caused by flies.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > conjunctivitis or ophthalmitis > types of
psorophthalmia1585
psorophthalmy1656
xerophthalmia1656
ophthalmia neonatorum1835
photophobophthalmia1842
sun blight1848
sand-blight1852
sandy blight1869
blepharoconjunctivitis1890
pink-eye1897
klieg eyes1923
bung eye1933
shipyard eye1943
red-eye1952
1933 Bulletin (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.
bung-hole n. the hole in a cask, which is closed with the bung; †transferred the anus (obsolete).
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > bung-, plug-, or tap-hole
bung?a1560
bung-hole?a1560
tap-hole1594
plug hole1743
the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > intestines > [noun] > large intestine > rectum > anus
fundamentc1325
tewelc1386
arseholea1400
hindwina1400
eyec1405
anus?a1425
nachec1440
bung-hole?a1560
siege1561
vent1587
touch-hole1602
nockhole1610
bumhole1611
dung gate1619
asshole1865
cornholec1920
okole1938
chuff1945
ring1949
ring-piece1949
buttholea1960
rump1959
brown eye1967
poephol1969
?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) iii. xii. sig. Rivv The diagonall..lynes from the bung holes to the..lowest parte of either base.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues 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].
1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (ed. 6) II. xii. 255 A cask with a very large bunghole.
bung-knife n. ? a knife for cutting bungs.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > knife > [noun] > other knives
bollock knifec1400
paring knife1415
spudc1440
pricking-knifec1500
shaving-knife1530–1
by-knifec1570
heading knife1574
stock knife1582
drawing knife1583
bung-knife1592
weeding knife1598
drawing knife1610
heading knife1615
draw knife1679
dressing knife1683
redishing knife1688
mocotaugan1716
skinning knife1767
paper knife1789
draw shave1824
leaf-cutter1828
piece-knife1833
nut-pick1851
relic knife1854
butch1859
straw-knife1862
sportsman's companion1863
ulu1864
skinner1872
hacker1875
over-shave1875
stripping-knife1875
Stanley knife1878
flat-back1888
gauge-knife1888
tine-knife1888
plough1899
band-knife1926
X-Acto1943
shank1953
box cutter1955
ratchet knife1966
ratchet1975
1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. D4v By his side a skeine like a Bruers boung knyfe.
bung-starter n. ‘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 n. that stave of a cask in which is the bung-hole.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > barrel or cask > [noun] > stave
stavea1398
staff1531
stap1587
bung-stave1860
1860 H. Stuart Novice's or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 64 The bung stave is known by the rivets of the hoops being on that stave.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 144 Its bung-stave is uppermost.
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† bungn.2
Thieves' Cant. Obsolete.
a. A purse.
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society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > money-bag, -purse, or -belt > [noun]
pungeOE
by-girdlec1000
purselOE
almonerc1330
pouch1355
almonryc1450
penny purse1523
cherry-bag1539
money bag1562
bung1567
jan1610
penny pouch1650
coda1680
zone1692
spung1728
money purse1759
spleuchan1787
skin1795
sporran1817
fisc1820
moneybelt1833
poke1859
purse-belt1901
1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) Peddelars Frenche sig. Giii Bunge, a pursse.
1592 Def. Coneycatching (1859) 4 Some..would venture all the byte in their boung at dice.
1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. K4v Shal you and I..nip a bung? shall you and I..cut a purse?
a1658 J. Cleveland Clievelandi Vindiciæ (1677) 96 An Authentick Gypsie, that nips your Bung with a Canting Ordinance.
b. A pick-pocket.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > pickpocket or cutpurse > [noun] > pickpocket
fig-boyc1555
foister1585
foist1591
pickpocket1591
bung1600
diver1608
pocket-picker1622
pocketeerc1626
bung-nipper1659
file1673
filer1674
shark1707
hoister1708
knuckle1781
knuckler1801
buzzgloak1819
cly-faker1819
fingersmith1819
knuck1819
fogle hunter1821
buzzman1832
nobbler1839
wire1851
gonoph1853
wirer1857
dip1859
moll-tooler1859
buzzer1862
hook1863
snotter1864
tool1865
pocket-cutter1885
dipper1889
pogue-hunter1896
pick1902
finger1925
whizz1925
whizzer1925
prat diggera1931
whizz-boy1931
whizz-man1932
reefer1935
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. iv. 125 You cutpurse rascall, you filthy boung . View more context for this quotation
Compounds
bung-nipper n. a pick-pocket.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > pickpocket or cutpurse > [noun] > pickpocket
fig-boyc1555
foister1585
foist1591
pickpocket1591
bung1600
diver1608
pocket-picker1622
pocketeerc1626
bung-nipper1659
file1673
filer1674
shark1707
hoister1708
knuckle1781
knuckler1801
buzzgloak1819
cly-faker1819
fingersmith1819
knuck1819
fogle hunter1821
buzzman1832
nobbler1839
wire1851
gonoph1853
wirer1857
dip1859
moll-tooler1859
buzzer1862
hook1863
snotter1864
tool1865
pocket-cutter1885
dipper1889
pogue-hunter1896
pick1902
finger1925
whizz1925
whizzer1925
prat diggera1931
whizz-boy1931
whizz-man1932
reefer1935
1659 Catterpillers of this Nation Anatomized Bung-Nibber, or Cut-purse = a pickpocket.
1725 New Canting Dict. Bung, a Purse, Pocket, or Fob…Bung-nippers, Cut-purses.
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bungn.3
slang.
A lie, falsehood.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [noun] > a falsehood, lie
liec900
leasingc1000
falsehoodc1290
falsedom1297
gabbinga1300
fablec1300
follyc1300
fittenc1440
untruthc1449
crackc1450
fallacy1481
falsity1557
falsedict1579
untroth1581
crackera1625
flam1632
mendacity1646
fairy story1692
false1786
whid1794
gag1805
wrinkle1819
reacher1828
cram1842
untruism1845
crammer1861
inveracity1864
bung1882
fairy tale1896
mistruth1897
post-and-rails1945
pork pie1973
porky1985
1882 A. M. Brookfield Autobiogr. Thomas Allen I. v. 61 ‘And for having told a bung,’ said Fisher. ‘A beastly bung,’ cried all the judges.
1913 M. Baring Lost Diaries 8 Mac reported him for telling bungs.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
bungn.4
Criminals' slang.
A bribe. Cf. bung v.3
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [noun] > bribe
gift1382
handy-dandyc1390
pricec1400
bud1436
bribe?a1439
golden (also silver) keyc1450
fee1549
golden shower1589
oil of angels1592
sugar-plum1608
bribera1616
palm oil1625
greasinga1661
sop1665
sweetbreada1670
vail1687
douceur1739
sweetener1741
bonus1759
buckshee1773
smear-gelt1785
grease1823
boodle?1856
soap1860
ice1887
palm-grease1897
poultice1902
fix1929
dropsy1930
pay-off1930
drop1931
oil1935
squeeze-pidgin1946
sling1948
bung1958
back-hander1960
1958 F. 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.’
1966 ‘J. Ashford’ Consider Evid. vii. 67 What's the matter? Not being offered enough bung?
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
bungadj.1
Scottish.
‘Tipsy, fuddled; a low word’ (Jamieson).
ΚΠ
1721 A. Ramsay Ode to R. H. B. in Poems 359 When with Wine he's bung.
a1758 A. Ramsay Poems (1844) 84 She..chang'd her mind, whan bung.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
bungadj.2
/bʌŋ/, U.S. /bəŋ/, Australian English /bʌŋ/, New Zealand English /bʌŋ/ Australian and New Zealand slang.
1. Dead.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [adjective]
deadOE
lifelessOE
of lifeOE
storvena1225
dead as a door-nail1362
ydead1387
stark deadc1390
colda1400
bypast1425
perishedc1440
morta1450
obita1450
unquickc1449
gone?a1475
dead and gone1482
extinct1483
departed1503
bygonea1522
amort1546
soulless1553
breathless1562
parted1562
mortified1592
low-laid1598
disanimate1601
carcasseda1603
defunct1603
no morea1616
with God1617
death-stricken1618
death-strucken1622
expired1631
past itc1635
incinerated1657
stock-dead1662
dead as a herring1664
death-struck1688
as dead as a nit1789
(as) dead as mutton1792
low1808
laid in the locker1815
strae-dead1820
disanimated1833
ghosted1834
under the daisies1842
irresuscitable1843
under the sod1847
toes up1851
dead and buried1863
devitalized1866
translated1869
dead and done (for, with)1886
daid1890
bung1893
(as) dead as the (or a) dodo1904
six feet under1942
brown bread1969
1847 J. D. Lang Cooksland x. 430 A place called Umpie Bung, or the dead houses.]
1893 Argus (Melbourne) 15 Apr. 13/2 in E. E. Morris Austral Eng. (1898) All flesh is grass, says the preacher,..And we gaze on a bank in the evening, and lo, in the morn 'tis bung.
2. Bankrupt.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > [adjective] > going bankrupt > bankrupt
decoct1529
bankrupt1565
bankruptlike1625
cracked1632
bursten1638
bankrupted1649
crazy1700
crazed1732
busted1836
quisby1853
sold-out1859
bung1948
bust1964
1948 L. R. C. Macfarlane This N.Z. xiv. 137 We were bung, completely down and out.
3. Ruined, useless.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > [adjective] > unserviceable
unbriche1303
unable1390
unserviceable1535
inserviceable1607
impracticable1717
condemned1798
unusable1825
unadoptable1843
dis1925
bung1930
u/s1942
inoperable1949
1930 A. Groom Merry Christmas xxvi. 209 The telephone line's been mostly bung and broke since, but I got through.
1952 G. Wilson Julien Ware viii. 68 ‘Why aren't you playing?’..‘Got a bung ankle. Don't want to hurt it again.’
Phrases
to go bung: to die; to fail; to go bankrupt.
ΚΠ
1882 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].
1885 H. Finch-Hatton Advance Australia! x. 142 Directly me bung (die) me jump up white feller.
1885 Austral. Printers' Keepsake 40 His musical talent had ‘gone bung’.
1893 Melbourne Herald 25 Apr. 2/4 One member of the mischief-making brotherhood wrote the words ‘gone bung’ under a notice on the Government Savings Bank.
1902 W. Satchell Land of Lost vii. 47 The merchant princes who have gone bung, and the geniuses who have gone bunger.
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bungv.1
/bʌŋ/, U.S. /bəŋ/ transitive.
1. To stop with a bung; also with down, up.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > close an aperture or orifice > with a plug or stopper
to make a stoupaille of1426
bung1600
plug1630
cork1659
spile1691
stopple?1795
stopper1827
stopper1869
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. xlix. 531 You must bung it vp very close.
1744 W. Hanbury in Philos. Trans. 1740–41 (Royal Soc.) 41 674 Unctuous Clay, such as Brewers use to bong their Vessels.
1834 F. Marryat Pacha I. ii. 40 I had bunged up the cask.
1836 Penny Cycl. V. 405/1 The beer [should be] well flattened before bunging down in the casks.
2. transferred and figurative. To stop, close; to shut up. Now chiefly in Boxing slang, to bung up the eyes.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > not seeing or preventing from seeing > prevent from seeing [verb (transitive)] > close (a person's) eyes
bung1589
seel1605
the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > close by obstruction or block up
fordita800
forstop?c1225
estopa1420
accloy1422
ferma1522
clam1527
quar1542
cloy1548
dam1553
occlude1581
clog1586
impeach1586
bung1589
gravel1602
impediment1610
stifle1631
foul1642
obstipate1656
obturate1657
choke1669
blockade1696
to flop up1838
jama1865
to ball up1884
gunge1976
1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet A iiij These mutiners..must haue their mouthes bungd with iests.
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 294 My mouth was bung'd vp, I durst not speake.
1662 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 3rd Pt. 318 Resolve to bung up thine ear from all by-discourse.
1755 Connoisseur No. 53 (1774) II. 139 In the vulgar idiom Bunging your eye.
1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer I. v. 151 With his eyes bunged up, and his face..swollen.
3. To shut up, enclose, as in a bunged cask.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclosing or confining > enclose or confine [verb (transitive)] > as in specific place
box1551
encagea1586
bung1592
cell1592
oven1596
pew1609
enfold?1611
stya1616
incabinate1672
web1864
1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. G2 v Bung vp all the wealth of the Land in their snap-haunce bags.
1775 D. Garrick Let. 20 Apr. in G. Colman Posthumous Lett. Celebrated Men (1820) 308 Henderson play'd Regulus—& you would have wish'd him bung'd up with his nails before ye End of ye 3d act.
1794 J. Wolcot Instr. Celebr. Laureat in Wks. III. 419 Chain'd be the tempests, and well bung'd the rain.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
bungv.2
slang (originally dialect).
transitive. To throw (violently); to send; to put forcibly. Also with in. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > place or put in a position [verb (transitive)] > forcibly, firmly, or quickly
thudc1000
throwa1250
pilt?c1250
casta1300
pusha1350
hurla1375
paltc1390
thrusta1400
thack1542
clap1559
to throw on1560
planch1575
protrude1638
shove1807
bung1825
shoot1833
slap1836
plunk1866
slam1870
spank1880
the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > throw [verb (transitive)] > violently
dusta1225
stetec1330
swinga1400
whirra1400
wapc1440
whirlc1440
to throw off1551
swash1577
ding1614
bung1825
whither1825
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) To bung, to throw with violence, Aberd.
1835 Sessions' Paper Cent. Criminal Court May 37 I heard one say to the other, ‘Bill, bung 'em,’ and one of them chucked the beads down.
1839 Sessions' Paper Cent. Criminal Court Mar. 889 The policeman says that ‘bung it’ means ‘Put it back’.
1903 Daily 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.’
1913 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. I. ii. ii. 174 Let's bung these sticks into the sea.
1923 Glasgow 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.
1933 P. G. Wodehouse Mulliner Nights iv. 139 Telling the butler to bung Mr. Mulliner into the drawing-room and lock up all the silver.
1944 R. Lehmann Ballad & Source 222 We've torn them in pieces and bunged them into a giant's stew-pot.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
bungv.3
Criminals' slang.
transitive. To bribe; to pay; to tip. Cf. bung n.4
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [verb (transitive)] > bribe
meedOE
underorna1325
corrump1387
forbuy1393
hirec1400
wage1461
fee1487
under-arearc1503
bribe1528
grease1528
money1528
corrupt1548
budc1565
to feed with money1567
to put out a person's eyes with (a gift, bribe, etc.)1580
sweeten1594
to grease the fist or (one) in the fist1598
over-bribe1619
to buy off1629
palter1641
to take off1646
buy1652
overmoneya1661
bub1684
to speak to ——1687
to tickle in the palm1694
daub1699
overbuy1710
touch1752
palm1767
to get at ——1780
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sop1837
to buy over1848
backsheesh1850
nobble1856
square1859
hippodrome1866
see1867
boodleize1883
boodle1886
to get to ——1901
reach1906
straighten1923
lubricate1928
to keep (someone) sweet1939
sling1939
to pay off1942
bung1950
1950 P. 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.
1963 T. Morris & 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.
1966 ‘J. Ashford’ Consider Evid. i. 5 He needed it [sc. the money]..for bunging the cozzpots if anything went wrong.
1967 J. Burke Till Death us do Part i. 24 Don't forget the solicitors..They'll want bunging.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
bungadv.
In or into the very middle of things; = smack v.2 7b.
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the world > time > relative time > immediacy > [adverb]
soonc825
ratheeOE
rathelyeOE
rekeneOE
rekenlyOE
thereright971
anonOE
forth ona1000
coflyc1000
ferlyc1000
radlyOE
swiftlyc1000
unyoreOE
yareOE
at the forme (also first) wordOE
nowOE
shortlya1050
rightOE
here-rightlOE
right anonlOE
anonc1175
forthrightc1175
forthwithalc1175
skeetc1175
swithc1175
with and withc1175
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quickly?c1225
tidelyc1225
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hastilyc1275
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titelyc1330
yernec1330
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redelya1375
redlya1375
rifelya1375
yeplya1375
at one blastc1380
fresha1382
ripelyc1384
presentc1385
presently1385
without arrestc1385
readilyc1390
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derflya1400
forwhya1400
skeetlya1400
straighta1400
swifta1400
maintenantc1400
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onenec1429
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right forth1440
withouten wonec1440
whipc1460
forthwith1461
undelayed1470
incessantly1472
at a momentc1475
right nowc1475
synec1475
incontinently1484
promptly1490
in the nonce?a1500
uncontinent1506
on (upon, in) the instant1509
in short1513
at a clap1519
by and by1526
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at the first chop1528
maintenantly1528
on a tricea1529
with a tricec1530
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straightwaysa1533
short days1533
undelayedly1534
fro hand1535
indelayedly1535
straight forth1536
betimesc1540
livelyc1540
upononc1540
suddenly1544
at one (or a) dash?1550
at (the) first dash?1550
instantly1552
forth of hand1564
upon the nines1568
on the nail1569
at (also in, with) a thoughtc1572
indilately1572
summarily1578
at one (a) chop1581
amain1587
straightwise1588
extempore1593
presto1598
upon the place1600
directly1604
instant1604
just now1606
with a siserary1607
promiscuously1609
at (in) one (an) instant1611
on (also upon) the momenta1616
at (formerly also on or upon) sight1617
hand to fist1634
fastisha1650
nextly1657
to rights1663
straightaway1663
slap1672
at first bolt1676
point-blank1679
in point1680
offhand1686
instanter1688
sonica1688
flush1701
like a thought1720
in a crack1725
momentary1725
bumbye1727
clacka1734
plumba1734
right away1734
momentarily1739
momentaneously1753
in a snap1768
right off1771
straight an end1778
abruptedly1784
in a whistle1784
slap-bang1785
bang?1795
right off the reel1798
in a whiff1800
in a flash1801
like a shot1809
momently1812
in a brace or couple of shakes1816
in a gird1825
(all) in a rush1829
in (also at, on) short (also quick) order1830
straightly1830
toot sweetc1830
in two twos1838
rectly1843
quick-stick1844
short metre1848
right1849
at the drop of a (occasionally the) hat1854
off the hooks1860
quicksticks1860
straight off1873
bang off1886
away1887
in quick sticks (also in a quick stick)1890
ek dum1895
tout de suite1895
bung1899
one time1899
prompt1910
yesterday1911
in two ups1934
presto changeo1946
now-now1966
presto change1987
the world > space > place > position or situation > [adverb] > exactly (in a certain position)
righta1225
meet1543
plumb1701
spang1843
smack-dab1892
bung1899
bang1924
slap-dab1949
slap-bang1963
1899 R. Kipling Stalky & Co. 132 They have babies and teething and measles and all that sort of thing right bung in the school.
1899 R. Kipling Stalky & Co. 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.’
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n.21567
n.31882n.41958adj.11721adj.21882
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