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bungo en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /ˈbʊŋɡəʊ/

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 文(ぶん)語(ご) (bungo, “writing language”).

Meanings

1. (uncountable) A Japanese written language established mainly during the Heian period, circa 900–1200 C.E., and commonly used until circa 1900.

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Classical Japanese

bungo en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish bongo (“large canoe”).

Meanings

1. A kind of large canoe used in the southern United States, Central America, and South America.
   • He and a number of others bought a bungo (a large canoe), and in it actually started for San Francisco, a distance of more than three thousand miles. The party chose for leader one Chris. Lilly, a pugilist, […] 2005, William Harwar Parker, Recollections of a Confederate Naval Officer, Digital Antiquaria, →ISBN, page 159:
   • On the third day a bungo passed us, coming down the river from New Grenada, with a cargo and passengers to Santa Martha and the parts adjacent 1828, an officer of the Colombian Navy, Recollections of a Service of Three Years During the War-of-Extermination:
2. A large sailboat once used in Mexico.

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