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- Dictionarybung/bʌŋ/
noun
- 1. a stopper for closing a hole in a container.
verb
- 1. close with a stopper: "the casks are bunged before delivery"
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How to use bung in a sentence. the stopper especially in the bunghole of a cask; also : bunghole; the cecum or anus especially of a slaughtered animal… See the full definition
BUNG definition: 1. a round piece of rubber, wood, etc. that is used to close the hole in a container 2. a payment…. Learn more.
BUNG meaning: 1. a round piece of rubber, wood, etc. that is used to close the hole in a container 2. a payment…. Learn more.
n. 1. A stopper, especially for the hole through which a cask, keg, or barrel is filled or emptied. 2. A bunghole. tr.v. bunged, bung·ing, bungs. 1. To close with a cork or stopper. 2. Informal To injure or damage: fell on skis and bunged up my leg. 3. Chiefly British To fling; toss.
A bung is a round piece of wood, cork, or rubber which you use to close the hole in a container such as a barrel or flask. 2. verb. If you bung something somewhere, you put it there in a quick and careless way. [British, informal] Pour a whole lot of cold water over the rice, and bung it in the oven.
Bung definition: a stopper for the opening of a cask.. See examples of BUNG used in a sentence.
Definition of bung verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
OED's earliest evidence for bung is from 1825, in a dictionary by John Jamieson, antiquary and philologist. bung is an imitative or expressive formation. See etymology
A bung is a round piece of wood, cork, or rubber which you use to close the hole in a container such as a barrel or flask. [...]
bung typically occurs fewer than 0.01 times per million words in modern written English. bung is in frequency band 2, which contains words occurring between 0.001 and 0.01 times per million words in modern written English.
