/bʊŋɡ/ (Midlands, Northern-England) without the NG-coalescence
Etymology
From Medieval Dutch bonge, bonne or bonghe (“stopper”), or perhaps from French bonde, which may itself be either of Germanic origin or from Proto-Celtic *bunda—either way probably from puncta (“hole”), the feminine singular form of Latin punctus, perfect passive participle of pungō (“pierce into, prick”).
Meanings
A stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber, used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, vat, a hole in a vessel etc.
Andre pulled the bung from the top of a barrel, applied a glass tube with a suction device, and withdrew a pale, almost greenish liquid. 2008, Christine Carroll, The Senator's Daughter:
With the heavy seas trying to broach the boat they baled — and eventually found someone had forgotten to put the bung in. 1996, Dudley Pope, Life in Nelson's Navy:
The cecum or anus, especially of livestock but sometimes (slang) of humans.
Chitterlings are comprised of the hog's large intestine and may include the bung. 1969, Institutional Meat Purchase Specifications for Edible By-products, page 9:
(slang) A bribe.
It is almost a year since Luton Town's manager, Mike Newell, decided that whistle-blowing was no longer the preserve of referees and went public about illegal bungs. 2006 December 21, Leader, “Poorly tackled”, in the Guardian:
Is this a case of mere ‘bungs’ (a form of bribery) at play in the book trade, a success bought with massive advertising effort and distribution through the author’s drugstore chain? 2021 April 26, Corinna Norrick-Rühl, Christian Alexander Peter, Lena Schüler, ““Pay to Play” in the German Book Trade?”, in Publishing Research Quarterly, volume 37, →DOI, pages 241–254:
The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bung-hole.
(obsolete, slang) A sharper or pickpocket.
You filthy bung, away. c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
(UK, obsolete, slang) The landlord of a public house.
"Well, sir, I haven't got one," said the landlord, "or you should have it directly." […] "Could you oblige me with such a thing as a postage stamp?" "No," said the Bung; "don't keep 'em!" 1878, Fun, volumes 27-28, page 11:
/bʊŋɡ/ (Midlands, Northern-England) without the NG-coalescence
Etymology
From Medieval Dutch bonge, bonne or bonghe (“stopper”), or perhaps from French bonde, which may itself be either of Germanic origin or from Proto-Celtic *bunda—either way probably from puncta (“hole”), the feminine singular form of Latin punctus, perfect passive participle of pungō (“pierce into, prick”).
Meanings
(transitive) To plug, as with a bung.
Put the wine into a cask, cover up the bung-hole to keep out the dust, and when the hissing sound ceases, bung the hole closely, and leave the wine untouched for twelve months. 2006, A. G. Payne, Cassell's Shilling Cookery:
It has not yet been ascertained, which is the precise time when it becomes indispensable to bung the cider. The best, I believe, that can be done, is to seize the critical moment which precedes the formation of a pellicle on the surface... 1810, Agricultural Surveys: Worcester (1810):
(Australia, UK, informal, transitive) To put, throw, or place something without care; to chuck.
Of course, the weird thing is that he found Marianne Faithfull at the same time and bunged it onto her, and it was a fucking hit, so already we're songwriters. 1996, Stanley Booth, quoting Keith Richards, Keith, St. Martin's Publishing Group, →ISBN:
And to sustain us while we watch or read, we go to the freezer, take out a frozen pizza, bung it in the microwave and make do. 2004, Bob Ashley, Food and cultural studies:
"Doctors are queer birds. This one didn't mind a bit dabbling about that old thing to find out what had happened inside her. He's fixed her up for tonight and is coming tomorrow to put her leg in plaster, or something. He wanted to bung her off to a hospital, but I persuaded him not to." 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 31:
(transitive) To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell.
[T]he Chicken had been tapped, and bunged, and had received pepper, and had been made groggy, and had come up piping, and had endured a complication of similar strange inconveniences, until he had been gone into and finished. 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
/bʊŋɡ/ (Midlands, Northern-England) without the NG-coalescence
Etymology
Borrowed from Yagara bang (“dead”).
Meanings
(Australia, New-Zealand, not-comparable, slang) Broken, not in working order; damaged; injured.
It′s the signal box, the main switchboard, that′s gone bung! 1997, Lin Van Hek, The Ballad of Siddy Church, page 219:
‘Morning Mrs. Weissnicht. I′ve just heard as how your washing-machine′s gone bung.’ 1953, Eric Linklater, A Year of Space, page 206:
[…] My right eye has gone bung, and my left one is pretty dicky. 1922, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Karen Oslund (introduction), The Worst Journey in the World, 2004, page 365, The evening we reached the glacier Bowers wrote
Happened to me the other day, I was there minding my own business when a trolley hit my bung foot at about Warp Nine speed. 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 140:
Henry had said, “Half a million bloomin′ acres. A quarter of a million blanky sheep shorn a year, and they can′t keep on two blokes. It′s not because wer′e union, mate. It′s because we′re newchums. Something′s gone bung with this country.” 2006, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, page 9:
/bʊŋɡ/ (Midlands, Northern-England) without the NG-coalescence
Etymology
From bouget (“wallet, purse or bag”), from Middle English bogett, bouget, bowgette (“leather pouch”), from Old French bougette, diminutive of bouge (“leather bag, wallet”), from Late Latin bulga (“wallet, purse”), from Gaulish bolgā, from Proto-Celtic *bolgos (“sack, bag, stomach”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰólǵʰ-os (“skin bag, bolster”), from *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”).
Meanings
(UK, obsolete, qualifier:thieves' cant) A purse.
Oft thsi crew of mates met together, and said there was no hope of nipping the boung because he held open his gowne so wide, and walked in such an open place. 1592, Robert Green, The Thirde & Last Part of Conny-catching, Bodleian Library (Malone 575), London: John Lane. Reprinted in 1923, Harrison, G. B. (ed.), The Bodley Head Quartos III, Plainstow, Great Britain: Curwen Press, p. 22
Ben mort, shall you and I heave a bough, mill a ken, or nip a bung, and then we'll couch a hogshead under the ruffmans, and there you shall wap with me, and I'll niggle with you. 1611, Thomas Middleton, “The Roaring Girl”, in Arthur Henry Bullen, editor, The Works of Thomas Middleton, volume 4, published 1885, act 5, scene 1, pages 128–129: