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lunged en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /lʌnd͡ʒd/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From lunge + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of lunge
    form of lunge

lunged en · ADJ · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /lʌŋd/

Etymology

From lung + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (in-compounds, not-comparable, often) Having lungs (of a specified type).
    • He had grown a big strong fellow, but I had no difficulty in identifying the little squinting child, who begged, and sold flowers and songs in public-house bars, with the strong loud-lunged vendor of mackerel. 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:

Deriveds

loud-lunged · lungedness · leather-lunged · black-lunged