| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To stopper.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To jam. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To gag.[Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Present participle conjugation of the verb bung.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (bung) | 1. Close with a cork or stopper.[Wordnet]. 2. Give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the agreed-on compensation; "Remember to tip the waiter"; "fee the steward".[Wordnet]. 3. To stop, as the orifice in the bilge of a cask, with a bung; to close; -- with up.[Websters]. 4. Base verb from the following inflections: bunging, bunged, bungs, bunger, bungers, bungingly and bungedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "BUNGING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1849. (references) |
Specialty Definition: bung
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Food & Agriculture | A plug of wood or plastic used for closing the bunghole in a keg. (references) | ||
| Literature | 1: Bung up. Close up, as a bung closes a cask. 2: Bung A cant term for a toper. "Away, ... you filthy bung," says Doll to Pistol. (2 Henry IV., ii. 4.) 3: Brother Bung. A cant term for a publican. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Mechanical Engineering | Conical plug of wood or glass used to close the opening in a cask. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Metallurgy | A stack on saggars or cranks set with ware. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Wikipedic | A bung is an apparatus used to seal a container, such as a bottle, tube or barrel. Unlike a lid which encloses a container from the outside without displacing the inner volume, a bung is partially inserted inside the container to act as a seal. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: bung
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Bung Enterprises Ltd | Bung Enterprises Ltd. was an electronics company based in Hong Kong. Its products were controversial backup and development units for videogame consoles, which could allow the user to play a game without owning the original cartridge. Backup units for NES, SNES, Neo-Geo, Sega Genesis, Game Boy and N64 were developed and produced by Bung. (references) | ||
| Bung fix | Bung released a programmable cartridge compatible with the GameBoy which could hold any data you wished to play. However, many games do not function on Bung v1.0 carts and have to be 'fixed. (references) | ||
| Bung Karno Stadium | Bung Karno Stadium (formerly known as Istora Senayan) is a multi-use stadium in Jakarta, Indonesia, and is one of the largest stadiums anywhere in the world. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium was built in 1962 and is able to hold 100,000 people. (references) | ||
| Bung language | The Bung language is a nearly extinct language of Cameroon spoken by 3 people (in 1995) at the village of Boung on the Adamawa Plateau. A wordlist collected for it shows its strongest resemblance to be with the Ndung dialect of Kwanja, although that may simply be because this has become the village's dominant language. It also has words in common with Tep, Somyev, and Vute, while a number of words' origins remain unclear (possibly Adamawan). For lack of data, it is not definitively classified. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: bung
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Baron Bung | Literature | Mine host, master of the beer bung. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Bung (California) | Food & Agriculture | Short flat bung used to close casks of wine during transport. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| BUNG DRIVER | Occupations | Covers bunghole of barrel with burlap cloth and hammers bung and cloth into hole to prevent dirt from entering barrel before it is filled. (references) | |
| Bung sewer | Occupations | Sews sections of animal intestine to form casings for lunch meat and specialty meat products: Positions edges of dried intestines together, places strips of paper (liners) over intestines, and slides them under presser foot of sewing machine. Starts machine, and stitches edges of liner and end of intestines to form casings. Maintains count of casings sewed for company records. May inspect and grade casings [CASING GRADER (meat products) ]. (references) | |
| Bung upwards | Slang in 1811 | 1: BUNG UPWARDS. Said of a person lying on his face. 2: BUNG YOUR EYE. Drink a dram; strictly speaking, to drink till one's eye is bunged up or closed. 3: QUEER BUNG. An empty purse. 4: RUM BUNG. A full purse. CANT. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
| Sulphite bung | Food & Agriculture | A hydraulic bung in which the liquid is a solution of sulphurous acid instead of water. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: bung | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Bung | 52 | Amphoe Bung Khla | 13 | |
| My Career Goes Bung | 19 | Bung | 52 | |
| Amphoe Bung Khla | 13 | Bung (alternative meanings) | 3 | |
| Bung Karno Stadium | 11 | Bung Bong, Victoria | 7 | |
| Bung Tomo | 10 | Bung Enterprises | 8 | |
| Bung Enterprises | 8 | Bung Karno Stadium | 11 | |
| Bung Bong, Victoria | 7 | Bung language | 4 | |
| Bung language | 4 | Bung Tomo | 10 | |
| Bung (alternative meanings) | 3 | My Career Goes Bung | 19 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
