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noun bʌŋbəŋ A stopper for closing a hole in a container. Example sentencesExamples - The minirhizotron tubes were sealed with rubber bungs.
- The bung was pressed into the hole to seal it, and the shaft removed.
- Each vessel was fitted with a rubber bung to accommodate the shoot base and electrodes and to minimize re-oxygenation of the medium by the atmosphere.
- On a thirsty day, unscrupulous carters were known to extract a free drink from a keg of porter by boring a small hole through the bung, inserting a goose quill and sucking some of the contents.
- The latter is covered with a rubber bung that's nice and snug out of the box, but becomes too loose to be of use once you've uncorked it.
- The mayor was taken on a site tour of the operation, by John Keeling, Brewing Director, where he saw the art of brewing and even tapped bungs into shives.
- His invention was designed to cut a hole through an existing bung or stopper rather than through the oak barrel head.
- Vessels were sealed with silicone rubber bungs.
- Not only does this placement of the connector make it more difficult to plug in an antenna, but it also leaves you with a small plastic bung lying around that you're bound to lose.
- A barrel is made up of staves shaped into a bulging cylinder, with hoops round it, a flat circular head at either end, and at least one hole for a bung.
- You just turn the taps on if you want a bath, and if you want a shower you push a rubber bung into the tap spout, and the water is diverted up into the shower.
- It's secured to the frame of the panel by small black plastic bungs which look ok, but some may have preferred metal.
- Each flask was sealed with a foam bung and foil cap, and placed on an orbital shaker at 135 rpm.
- A sterile disposable needle was fixed to the syringe, the air in it expelled carefully without causing aerosols and the needle capped with a sterile rubber bung.
- A piece of the leather bung which plugged one of these was still there, though the design I had seen on it the last time had disappeared.
- He removed all the bungs that he could free with a hammer and a screwdriver, then knocked over a half full drum of benzene.
- The bottom of the tube was fitted with a rubber bung.
- If you're using a barrel, use a silicone or rubber bung with a hole in the center for an airlock that fits the barrel's opening.
- There's also a pretty cool looking power button and a modem socket covered by a rubber bung.
- I took a bung out of one of the drums and looked inside, and it was all black, and not a golden colour like it should have been.
Synonyms stopper, plug, cork, spigot, spile, seal, cap, top, lid, cover North American stopple
verb bʌŋbəŋ [with object]1Close with a stopper. the casks are bunged before delivery Example sentencesExamples - If the hacker has a conscience - and most do - he will notify the victim and give them a few weeks to bung the hole before publishing his findings on the Web and getting the credit he deserves.
- In the mean time, until the hole is bunged, Slemko recommends that customers not access the Web site.
- Additionally, the Feds sought assurance that the patches MS has issued are adequate to bung the holes without causing problems for the machines they're installed on.
- They phoned West Wiltshire Housing Society which sent someone out to mend the damaged wires and bung up the hole into the attic but the squirrels were not deterred and more got in through a gap from their neighbour's house.
- 1.1bung something up Block something.
you let vegetable peelings bung the sink up Example sentencesExamples - It has three different sized grating thingies and the picture on the box very clearly shows it grating cheese, which puts a stop to the n'er-do-wells warning me that cheese would bung it up.
- One fine day it gets bunged up: and there you are.
- I feel light headed, my ears are bunged up and my balance feels hazy.
Phrases informal Affect a style of speech or behaviour that is pretentious or ostentatious. Georgie knew them well enough to know they were just bunging it on Example sentencesExamples - The hairdresser is only bunging it on to get the physical attention of the town's amorous farm wives.
- "Shirley's only bunging it on to get attention," she said dismissively.
- Rose began to realize that half the time the old girl was bunging it on.
- Does that jerk really have an ocker accent, or is he just bunging it on for effect?
- At first I thought they were 'bunging it on', but quickly realized that was how they treated each other.
Origin Late Middle English: from Middle Dutch bonghe (noun). Rhymes among, clung, dung, flung, hung, lung, outflung, rung, shantung, slung, sprung, strung, stung, sung, swung, tongue, underslung, wrung, young verb bʌŋbəŋ British informal with object and adverbial of direction Put or throw (something) somewhere in a careless or casual way. fill out the reply-paid card and bung it in the post Example sentencesExamples - When we stopped at Asda we bunged him in a proper shopping trolley which he proceeded to try to wrench himself out of by the arms.
- As little as five years later, you might actually be able to afford one - especially if your government, starting to really panic about climate change, bungs you a subsidy.
- If anyone rich reads this, can they please bung me some money so I can take her away for a short holiday?
- Intel's Pentium 4 Extreme Edition is aimed fairly and squarely at desktops for gamers, but that hasn't stopped a US PC maker from attempting to bung one into its high-end portables.
- But bung me on Brunswick street in a Christmas shopping rush and all of a sudden I'm leading the fashion stakes among Asian teens.
- I bunged everything into black plastic bin liners, sealed them for ‘freshness’, washed the mattress, cut up what he had been using for a ground sheet, fitted it to the floor of the van and left the van doors open for the rest of the day.
- And if you're a good wee boy we'll see if we can bung you some more dosh when the Scottish block gets fixed in a few weeks' time.
- And then, one who stares at a computer terminal for hours together would not be hard-pressed to market a ‘dancing bindi’ and bung in an application package for the same.
- Yes it's that time of year again, the time when Big Brother starts and Channel 4 bung God a few quid to make it sunny in order to encourage semi-nudity (it's true honestly, we've seen the internal memo).
- Better cook a steak at home and bung some oven chips under the grill.
- Made to an old family recipe in the mountains of Bavaria, Glhwein has been lovingly prepared by red - cheeked men in lederhosen so that all you have to do is bung it in a saucepan, warm it up and slug it down.
- When I sing, people want to bung the closest brick at me.
- In other words, the factories have the proper machinery and simply bung out an extra 100 pairs a week.
- Now I know how to pluralise a remarkable number of nouns (you can't just bung an ‘s’ on the end of a word).
- Toning will also make your skin much more receptive to the moisturiser you should be bunging onto your skin, making just the smallest amount needed for super soft skin.
- Deeply and sincerely, when it all got too sensitive, he would bung on an Aussie accent and we'd laugh.
- And if I promised you a link weeks ago but have still not delivered then sorry but please bung me an email and I'll sort things out.
- I had grilled her over the recipe and she told me that it was as simple as bunging together some leeks, potatoes and water and voila.
- But I'll bung some in anyway, it brightens up the page.
- Personally, I would bung a few of them into stocks in the town square, and make sure that the public of this country really do know who these people are, but we apparently - regrettably, in some cases - have moved on from those times.
noun bʌŋbəŋ British informal A bribe. Example sentencesExamples - Football is not unused to unscrupulous behaviour, including Far East gambling scams, players prepared to fix matches, agents ready to give and managers to take six-figure bungs.
- The Clough Years were subsequently tainted with bung allegations.
- There is a distinct whiff of bung hanging around Old Trafford today, as rumours that Diego Forlan was way over priced for his move to Salford's finest.
- He takes bungs in return for sick notes and unnecessary drug prescriptions.
- I know I'm not the only one to have stopped supporting animal welfare groups, so ultimately these groups will lose power as their donation base shrinks and they can no longer afford million pound bungs to the parliamentary Labour party.
- Football is dominated by money, takeovers, shares, bungs and tap-ups.
- Yet in a world notorious for bungs, Stephens has a reputation for straight dealing and honesty.
- In an age of extraordinary venality such as our own, when the government is only a facilitator of commerce, artists come under a great deal of general contempt, as if every single soul must become bung fodder for greed.
- Although he knew of the bung to Burke, he appeared to accept Murphy's denial that it had anything to do with JMSE, despite the fact that the payment made by its former chairman, Jim Gogarty, came from the company's accounts.
- However, the faces were there, slab-sided, sleek of hair, the secrets of their mysterious bungs and bank accounts locked behind monochrome eyes.
- And those who pay bungs and benefit from them are not just agents, they are often club officials, who obviously don't want greater scrutiny or transparency.
- I shall write this article without much mention of the bung allegations, as I am looking to discuss quality.
- He says at the end of the meeting another man, whom Gilmartin didn't recognise, collared him and asked for an outrageous bung.
- The real Licensee isn't monikered thus because he owns a bar, but because he's alleged to have a licence to operate in the city, through judicious bungs and threats to police and politicians.
- In his time he has been accused of taking bungs for transfers, and once gave an over-enthusiastic fan a clip round the ear for invading the pitch.
- House-price control is also naive because there are so many ways round it, from free cars, holidays, insurance and moving expenses to bungs in offshore accounts.
- What other construction is capable of being put on his words, other than ‘Seamie got a bung from the Micker’?
- However after being sacked from Highbury for the whole bung scenario the Scot made a shock return to North London in 1998 replacing Christian Gross as Spurs manager.
- Whether it's pitch battles, boardroom corruption, manager's bungs or ticket tout scandals, the whole league stinks of sleaze.
- ‘We've not had any bungs or better money than anyone else,’ he said.
Origin Early 19th century: symbolic; the noun sense dates from the 1950s. adjective bʌŋbəŋ Australian, NZ informal 1Broken down, ruined, or useless. Example sentencesExamples - As the people downstairs had absented themselves to a haven of fresh air somewhere, we were unable to inform them of this bung fuse and therefore unable to rectify the situation.
- Today I did a walking tour and now I have two bung knees.
- Mick used the bung method shown to him by local Northampton angler Spencer Kimton.
- Latham won the running race, while McManus ended up with a bung leg.
- Such clarity comes at a cost: a bung ear, some ugly scarring - and the inevitable life lesson.
- Except for the gym which I have joined to circumnavigate both my bung shin (which is getting less bung I'm pleased to report) and winter.
- All I can say is that my business partners have a sore shoulder, a screwy leg, a skin infection; and I am nursing a bung knee.
- Marg said it looked pretty crook, it had a bung eye, a bung wing and a bung leg.
- My email is going a tad bung at the moment, as is my whole computer.
- It wasn't so long ago that I told off the Nats for having a bung site.
2dated Dead. Example sentencesExamples - In parts of Australia, in New South Wales and Queensland, the word "bung" is an aboriginal word meaning ‘dead.’
Phrases 1informal Break down; fail or go bankrupt. Example sentencesExamples - This tank doesn't have CO2 and no heaters to go bung.
- The slide projector who on Earth uses slides nowadays?! went bung and Bordwell fielded a few questions from the audience.
- The left one went bung earlier in the year, and has not mended as expected (and a cataract has formed), so she's doing it pretty hard, and so is Dad.
- Gee I hope the tube isn't going bung!
- According to the opposition, the economy is about to go bung, and the streets will soon be full of former merchant bankers holding signs that say ‘will lick paths clean for food.’
- My career goes bung.
Example sentencesExamples - The word found its way into nineteenth-century Australian pidgin, where the phrase to go bung meant ‘to die’.
Origin Mid 19th century (originally Australian pidgin): from Yagara (an extinct Aboriginal language). nounbəNGbəŋ A stopper for closing a hole in a container. Example sentencesExamples - A piece of the leather bung which plugged one of these was still there, though the design I had seen on it the last time had disappeared.
- Each vessel was fitted with a rubber bung to accommodate the shoot base and electrodes and to minimize re-oxygenation of the medium by the atmosphere.
- The bottom of the tube was fitted with a rubber bung.
- I took a bung out of one of the drums and looked inside, and it was all black, and not a golden colour like it should have been.
- On a thirsty day, unscrupulous carters were known to extract a free drink from a keg of porter by boring a small hole through the bung, inserting a goose quill and sucking some of the contents.
- Vessels were sealed with silicone rubber bungs.
- A barrel is made up of staves shaped into a bulging cylinder, with hoops round it, a flat circular head at either end, and at least one hole for a bung.
- The minirhizotron tubes were sealed with rubber bungs.
- A sterile disposable needle was fixed to the syringe, the air in it expelled carefully without causing aerosols and the needle capped with a sterile rubber bung.
- His invention was designed to cut a hole through an existing bung or stopper rather than through the oak barrel head.
- The bung was pressed into the hole to seal it, and the shaft removed.
- If you're using a barrel, use a silicone or rubber bung with a hole in the center for an airlock that fits the barrel's opening.
- The mayor was taken on a site tour of the operation, by John Keeling, Brewing Director, where he saw the art of brewing and even tapped bungs into shives.
- There's also a pretty cool looking power button and a modem socket covered by a rubber bung.
- He removed all the bungs that he could free with a hammer and a screwdriver, then knocked over a half full drum of benzene.
- It's secured to the frame of the panel by small black plastic bungs which look ok, but some may have preferred metal.
- You just turn the taps on if you want a bath, and if you want a shower you push a rubber bung into the tap spout, and the water is diverted up into the shower.
- Each flask was sealed with a foam bung and foil cap, and placed on an orbital shaker at 135 rpm.
- The latter is covered with a rubber bung that's nice and snug out of the box, but becomes too loose to be of use once you've uncorked it.
- Not only does this placement of the connector make it more difficult to plug in an antenna, but it also leaves you with a small plastic bung lying around that you're bound to lose.
Synonyms stopper, plug, cork, spigot, spile, seal, cap, top, lid, cover
verbbəNGbəŋ [with object]1Close with a stopper. the casks are bunged before delivery Example sentencesExamples - Additionally, the Feds sought assurance that the patches MS has issued are adequate to bung the holes without causing problems for the machines they're installed on.
- They phoned West Wiltshire Housing Society which sent someone out to mend the damaged wires and bung up the hole into the attic but the squirrels were not deterred and more got in through a gap from their neighbour's house.
- If the hacker has a conscience - and most do - he will notify the victim and give them a few weeks to bung the hole before publishing his findings on the Web and getting the credit he deserves.
- In the mean time, until the hole is bunged, Slemko recommends that customers not access the Web site.
- 1.1bung something up Block (something), typically by overfilling it.
you let vegetable peelings bung up the sink Example sentencesExamples - It has three different sized grating thingies and the picture on the box very clearly shows it grating cheese, which puts a stop to the n'er-do-wells warning me that cheese would bung it up.
- I feel light headed, my ears are bunged up and my balance feels hazy.
- One fine day it gets bunged up: and there you are.
Origin Late Middle English: from Middle Dutch bonghe (noun). verbbəŋbəNG British informal with object and adverbial of direction Put or throw (something) somewhere in a careless or casual way. fill out the reply-paid card and bung it in the post Example sentencesExamples - I bunged everything into black plastic bin liners, sealed them for ‘freshness’, washed the mattress, cut up what he had been using for a ground sheet, fitted it to the floor of the van and left the van doors open for the rest of the day.
- Yes it's that time of year again, the time when Big Brother starts and Channel 4 bung God a few quid to make it sunny in order to encourage semi-nudity (it's true honestly, we've seen the internal memo).
- And if you're a good wee boy we'll see if we can bung you some more dosh when the Scottish block gets fixed in a few weeks' time.
- Better cook a steak at home and bung some oven chips under the grill.
- When I sing, people want to bung the closest brick at me.
- Personally, I would bung a few of them into stocks in the town square, and make sure that the public of this country really do know who these people are, but we apparently - regrettably, in some cases - have moved on from those times.
- As little as five years later, you might actually be able to afford one - especially if your government, starting to really panic about climate change, bungs you a subsidy.
- Deeply and sincerely, when it all got too sensitive, he would bung on an Aussie accent and we'd laugh.
- I had grilled her over the recipe and she told me that it was as simple as bunging together some leeks, potatoes and water and voila.
- Toning will also make your skin much more receptive to the moisturiser you should be bunging onto your skin, making just the smallest amount needed for super soft skin.
- Intel's Pentium 4 Extreme Edition is aimed fairly and squarely at desktops for gamers, but that hasn't stopped a US PC maker from attempting to bung one into its high-end portables.
- When we stopped at Asda we bunged him in a proper shopping trolley which he proceeded to try to wrench himself out of by the arms.
- Now I know how to pluralise a remarkable number of nouns (you can't just bung an ‘s’ on the end of a word).
- But bung me on Brunswick street in a Christmas shopping rush and all of a sudden I'm leading the fashion stakes among Asian teens.
- But I'll bung some in anyway, it brightens up the page.
- And if I promised you a link weeks ago but have still not delivered then sorry but please bung me an email and I'll sort things out.
- And then, one who stares at a computer terminal for hours together would not be hard-pressed to market a ‘dancing bindi’ and bung in an application package for the same.
- Made to an old family recipe in the mountains of Bavaria, Glhwein has been lovingly prepared by red - cheeked men in lederhosen so that all you have to do is bung it in a saucepan, warm it up and slug it down.
- In other words, the factories have the proper machinery and simply bung out an extra 100 pairs a week.
- If anyone rich reads this, can they please bung me some money so I can take her away for a short holiday?
nounbəŋbəNG British informal A bribe. Example sentencesExamples - He takes bungs in return for sick notes and unnecessary drug prescriptions.
- The real Licensee isn't monikered thus because he owns a bar, but because he's alleged to have a licence to operate in the city, through judicious bungs and threats to police and politicians.
- Football is dominated by money, takeovers, shares, bungs and tap-ups.
- There is a distinct whiff of bung hanging around Old Trafford today, as rumours that Diego Forlan was way over priced for his move to Salford's finest.
- What other construction is capable of being put on his words, other than ‘Seamie got a bung from the Micker’?
- However after being sacked from Highbury for the whole bung scenario the Scot made a shock return to North London in 1998 replacing Christian Gross as Spurs manager.
- And those who pay bungs and benefit from them are not just agents, they are often club officials, who obviously don't want greater scrutiny or transparency.
- House-price control is also naive because there are so many ways round it, from free cars, holidays, insurance and moving expenses to bungs in offshore accounts.
- Although he knew of the bung to Burke, he appeared to accept Murphy's denial that it had anything to do with JMSE, despite the fact that the payment made by its former chairman, Jim Gogarty, came from the company's accounts.
- Football is not unused to unscrupulous behaviour, including Far East gambling scams, players prepared to fix matches, agents ready to give and managers to take six-figure bungs.
- I shall write this article without much mention of the bung allegations, as I am looking to discuss quality.
- He says at the end of the meeting another man, whom Gilmartin didn't recognise, collared him and asked for an outrageous bung.
- In his time he has been accused of taking bungs for transfers, and once gave an over-enthusiastic fan a clip round the ear for invading the pitch.
- In an age of extraordinary venality such as our own, when the government is only a facilitator of commerce, artists come under a great deal of general contempt, as if every single soul must become bung fodder for greed.
- Yet in a world notorious for bungs, Stephens has a reputation for straight dealing and honesty.
- I know I'm not the only one to have stopped supporting animal welfare groups, so ultimately these groups will lose power as their donation base shrinks and they can no longer afford million pound bungs to the parliamentary Labour party.
- However, the faces were there, slab-sided, sleek of hair, the secrets of their mysterious bungs and bank accounts locked behind monochrome eyes.
- The Clough Years were subsequently tainted with bung allegations.
- Whether it's pitch battles, boardroom corruption, manager's bungs or ticket tout scandals, the whole league stinks of sleaze.
- ‘We've not had any bungs or better money than anyone else,’ he said.
Origin Early 19th century: symbolic; the noun sense dates from the 1950s. adjectivebəŋbəNG Australian, NZ informal 1Broken down, ruined, or useless. Example sentencesExamples - Latham won the running race, while McManus ended up with a bung leg.
- As the people downstairs had absented themselves to a haven of fresh air somewhere, we were unable to inform them of this bung fuse and therefore unable to rectify the situation.
- Today I did a walking tour and now I have two bung knees.
- Except for the gym which I have joined to circumnavigate both my bung shin (which is getting less bung I'm pleased to report) and winter.
- Such clarity comes at a cost: a bung ear, some ugly scarring - and the inevitable life lesson.
- It wasn't so long ago that I told off the Nats for having a bung site.
- All I can say is that my business partners have a sore shoulder, a screwy leg, a skin infection; and I am nursing a bung knee.
- Mick used the bung method shown to him by local Northampton angler Spencer Kimton.
- My email is going a tad bung at the moment, as is my whole computer.
- Marg said it looked pretty crook, it had a bung eye, a bung wing and a bung leg.
2dated Dead. Example sentencesExamples - In parts of Australia, in New South Wales and Queensland, the word "bung" is an aboriginal word meaning ‘dead.’
Phrases 1informal Break down; fail or go bankrupt. Example sentencesExamples - The left one went bung earlier in the year, and has not mended as expected (and a cataract has formed), so she's doing it pretty hard, and so is Dad.
- My career goes bung.
- This tank doesn't have CO2 and no heaters to go bung.
- According to the opposition, the economy is about to go bung, and the streets will soon be full of former merchant bankers holding signs that say ‘will lick paths clean for food.’
- Gee I hope the tube isn't going bung!
- The slide projector who on Earth uses slides nowadays?! went bung and Bordwell fielded a few questions from the audience.
Example sentencesExamples - The word found its way into nineteenth-century Australian pidgin, where the phrase to go bung meant ‘to die’.
Origin Mid 19th century (originally Australian pidgin): from Yagara (an extinct Aboriginal language). |