| 释义 |
bunk
I. \ˈbəŋk\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: perhaps from Arabic, an odoriferous root
1. : chicory
2. : poison hemlock
II. noun
(-s)
Etymology: probably short for bunker
1.
a. : a built-in frame that usually has low sides and a canvas, mesh, or spring bottom and that serves as a bed or sleeping place (as on a ship or in a camp) and often is one of a series in tiers
b. : a sleeping place : bed
2.
a. : a heavy timber or crossbeam on a logging sled or car on which the logs rest
b. : a log car or log truck
3. : a long usually wood or concrete trough or manger for feeding cattle — called also feed bunk
III. verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
intransitive verb
1. : to occupy a bunk or bed
< bunk in the attic >
: share a bed
< having no hotel room, he bunked with a friend for the night >
2. : to stay the night : occupy sleeping quarters : put up
< bunk at a neighbor's house for a couple of days >
transitive verb
1. : to place (logs) on bunks
2. : to provide with a bunk, bed, or sleeping quarters
< I don't know where the exec means to bunk you so we can't move you into a stateroom just yet — Wirt Williams >
IV. intransitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: perhaps from bunk (III) (in the phrase to bunk across to go across by ship)
slang Britain : to go away especially as an escape : leave, scram
< suddenly got frightened and bunked — Margery Allingham >
V. noun
(-s)
slang chiefly Britain : a hurried departure usually in escaping something — used in the phrase do a bunk
< the pranksters did a bunk before the police arrived >
VI. noun
(-s)
Etymology: short for bunkum
slang : bunkum, nonsense
VII. transitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
slang : fool, deceive, mislead
< on both sides of the Senate aisle there are men … who will go down to defeat before they will try to bunk the people — Blair Moody >
VIII. intransitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: probably alteration of bump (I)
: bump, run
< bunk into a post >
< bunk into a friend on the street > |