Bung

Definition: Bung

Bung

Noun

1. A plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask.

Verb

1. Give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the agreed-on compensation; "Remember to tip the waiter".

2. Close with a cork or stopper.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bung" was first used: sometime around 1440. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Industry

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Bung

Closure

Verb: close, occlude, plug; block up, stop up, fill up, bung up, cork up, button up, stuff up, shut up, dam up; blockade, obstruct;

Stopper

Noun: stopper, stopple; plug, cork, bung, spike, spill, tap; rammer; ram, ramrod; piston; stop-gap; wadding, stuffing, padding, stopping, dossil, pledget, tompion, tourniquet.

Crosswords: Bung

Indonesian (brother, buddy, fellow, mac).

Give him two lips like roses and clover bung, bung, bung, bung ("Mr. Sandman"; performing artist: The Chordettes)

Make him the cutest that I’ve ever seen bung, bung, bung, bung ("Mr. Sandman"; performing artist: The Chordettes)

Scat bung, bung, bung, bung ("Mr. Sandman"; performing artist: The Chordettes)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The World Market for Stoppers, Caps, Lids, Capsules for Bottles, Threaded Bungs, Bung Covers, and Seals of Base Metal: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• Blago Bung, Blago Bung, Bosso Fatakal: First Texts of German Dada (Anti-Classics of Dada) (reference)

• Bung Karno : sebuah bibliografi : memuat daftar karya oleh dan tentang Bung Karno (reference)

• Bung Karno: Demokrasi Terpimpin, Milik Rakyat Indonesia: Kumpulan Pidato (reference)

• Hard to go bung : World War II soldier settlement in Victoria, 1945-1962 (reference)

• Hariyatie-Soekarno: The Hidden Story: Hari-Hari Bersama Bung Karno, 1963-1967 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Human Rights

Burma

For example, according to the Chin Human Rights Organization, in 2000 the army killed Zo Thang, a field monitor for the NGO, as well as two associates, in Bung Khua village, Chin State. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "bung": bung off ♦ bung out ♦ bung up ♦ sulphite bung ♦ To bung up. Additional references.

Beginning with "bung": bung-ho!, bung-hole.

Ending with "bung": cheery-bung.

Albanian

tapos (Cork, stop, stop up, stopple), tapë (Bibb, bunghole, Cork, Corky, float, gag, obturator, pickled, plug, rabbit, spigot, stopper, stopple, tap, wad), sop (height, rib), mbyll (calk, caulk, close, close up, commit, confine, crib, dry up, encase, enclose, encompass, end, entomb, fasten, furl, glue up, hush up, impound, inclose, key, lap, obturate, occlude, pen, screw on, seal, shut, shut down, shut up, shutter, stop, stop up, stuff, suffuse, turn off, wind up, wrap up). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كدم (bruise, contuse, contusion, tarmac), ‏سدادة (gland, infarct, logjam, peg, plug, spigot, spile, stop, stopper), ‏سد (bar, barrage, block, clog, close, close up, congest, dam, dike, dyke, embankment, fill, floodgate, foul, lock, mure, obturate, obturation, occlude, occlusion, pack, plug, seal, shut, stem, stop, stop up, stuff, tamp, wad, weir), ‏ذهب على وجه السرعة, ‏رض (bruise, contusion, stamp, trauma). (various references)

Bulgarian 

чеп (burr, fauces, knag, knar, knot, knur, knurl, nodule, Nodus, nub, peg, plug, spigot, spile, tap, toggle), кръчмар (cantinier, innkeeper, publican, saloonkeeper), канелка (bibcock, faucet, spigot, tap, vent-peg), натъпквам (bulge, compress, cram, crush, fill in, imbed, impact, jam, lumber, pack, pack in, pump in, ram, stuff, tamp), запушвам (close, obstruct, obturate, occlude, plug, plug up, stop, stop up, stopper, stopple, stuff, wad, wall up), лъжа (cracker, cram, deception, falsehood, have on, inveracity, leasing, lie, lurk, play possum with, pose, tell a lie, tell lies, two time, untruth), дупка за чеп. (various references)

Chinese 

桶盖. (various references)

Czech

zazátkovat (Cork, plug), zátka (Cork, plug, stopper, tap), hodit (cast, chuck, drop, fling, heave, hurtle, pitch, spang, throw, tip, toss), èep (peg, spigot, tenon). (various references)

Danish

spunstap (cellar plug(California), spile, wooden peg), spuns med gevind, spuns (cellar plug, cellar plug(California), dowel), aftapningshul (plug, tap-hole). (various references)

Dutch

bom (bomb), spongat (bunghole, plug, tap-hole), spon (bung(California), cellar plug, cellar plug(California), shive), schroefspon. (various references)

Farsi 

چوب پنبه بشکه , کیسه (Bag, Capsule, Cod, Cyst, Pouch, Purse, Sack, Sinus), سوراخ بشگه رابستن , ساقی (Drawer), جیب بر (Cutpurse, Dip, Pickpocket), دریچه مجرا, دروغ (Fable, False, Fiction, Lie, Untrue). (various references)

Finnish

tulppa (plug, stopper). (various references)

French

bonde (bunghole). (various references)

German

spund (electric plug, plug, spigot, stopper). (various references)

Greek 

πώμα (cap, lid, plug, stopper), τάπα (cap, spigot, spile, stopper). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפקוק (gag, plug, wad), פקק (gag, logjam, peg, plug, spigot, stopper, tap). (various references)

Hungarian

dugó (cork, peg, plug, spill, stopper, stopple, stud, tap). (various references)

Italian

zipolo (spigot). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

呑口 (bung hole, end of pipe stem). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

のみぐち (a tap, bung hole, end of pipe stem, faucet, spigot, tap). (various references)

Manx

pluggan, dhull (drain plug, hole, peg, plug), cur pluggan ayn, cur bong ayn, bongal, bong. (various references)

Pig Latin

ungbay.(various references)

Portuguese

borneiro (cellar plug(California)), boca de barril, batoque roscado, batoque (cork, plug, pudge, spigot, spile, stopper), tampão roscado, tampa (cork, dust-cover, envelope, hood, lid, stopgap, stopper, tampion), rolhar, rolha (plug, stop, stopper, stopple), mentira (canard, caulker, corker, crack, cracker, cram, crammer, do, fable, fairytale, falsehood, have-on, humbug, invention, leasing, lie, lying, mendacity, phoney, phony, tall tale, taradiddle, untruth), gola (neck, neckband, necklet, neckpiece), coleira (chain belt, dog-collar, leash, necklace), colarinho (collar, daylight, neck), colar (affix, attach, beads, bind, chain, collar, collate, crib, glue, gum, necklace, paste, stick), atirar (accelerate, aim, bandy, bowl, cast, cob, dart, deliver, detrude, drive, fling, give over, gun, heave, launch, loose, pitch, project, pump up, put, shoot, sling, strike, throw). (various references)

Romanian

vranã (barrel vent), obturator (obturator, shutter), minciunã (deceit, fabrication, falsehood, fib, gag, lie, lying, tale, untruth), cep (journal, nose, spigot, spile, spill, tap), astupa (bar, block, clog, close, fill, obstruct, occlude, plug, stop, stopper). (various references)

Russian 

втулка (boss, bushing, collar, hob, nave, pad, peg, quill, sleeve, socket, spigot, spile, tampion, vent-peg), затычка (gag, obturator, pad, peg, plug, stopgap, stopper, stopple, tampion), затыкать (caulk, obturate, shut up, stem, stop, stop up, stopple, stoppling, stuff). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

baciti (cast, chuck, dart, dash, fling, heave, hurl, hurtle, peg, pitch, project, shoot, slap, sling, throw, throw out, toss), zapušač (cork, corker, plug, stopper, stopple, tap), čep (cork, plug, spigot, spile, stopple, tampion, tampon, wad). (various references)

Spanish

bitoque, taponar (Cork, plug, stopper, stopple), tapon roscado, tapón para los todos (Cork, jam), tapón (cap, capful, cover, plug, stopper, stopple, tampion, tampon, wad, wadding), piquera (plug, tap-hole), largar (launch, let go, release, send packing, unfurl, unhand). (various references)

Swedish

täppa igen (foul, foul up, seal), sprundtapp (cellar plug(California)), sprund (placket, slit), propp (Bibb, cutout, fuse, obturator, plug, spigot, stopper, stopple), hyva. (various references)

Thai

จุกหรือที่อุ�". (various references)

Turkish

tıpalamak (Cork, plug, plug up, put on a stopper), tıpa (Cork, plug, stopper, stopple, tampon, wad), tıkamak (block, block up, bung up, choke, choke up, clog, congest, engorge, foul, foul up, glut, hold, jam, obliterate, obstruct, obturate, occlude, plug, plug up, seal off, Spike, spile, stop, stop up, stopple, stuff, tampon, wad), tıkaç (Cork, filler, gag, packing, plug, spigot, spill, stopper, stopple, tampon, wad, wadding), savurmak (blow about, brandish, chuck, chuck away, dash, flap, fling, hurl, hurtle, rip out, scatter, swing, throw out, thunder), fırlatmak (aim, blast off, cast, cast away, catapult, chuck, chuck away, dart, eject, fling, hurl, hurtle, launch, pelt, project, send, shoot, shoot out, shy, swing, throw, toss, whisk), fıçı tapası (spigot, spile). (various references)

Ukrainian

втулка (barrel, collet, hob, hub, liner, nave, spigot, spile, tap), затичка (obturator, spigot, stopgap), затикати (caulk, fill, obturate, plug, stop up, wad), закупорювати (bottle up, obstruct, occlude, oppilate, plug up, stopper, stopple), брехня (bouncer, caulker, crammer, falsehood, falsity, fib, flam, fudge, leasing, lie, lying, spinach, untruth, windy, yap). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự nói dối (lie, lying), nút thùng. (various references)

serraculum. (various references)

bonge, plugge. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "bung": bungalow, bungalows, bunged, bungee, bungees, bunghole, bungholes, bunging, bungle, bungled, bungler, bunglers, bungles, bunglesome, bungling, bunglingly, bunglings, bungs. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bung" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bangy, beng, bhn, bingy, Bongi, boungy, brng, brung, buang, budg, Bugg, bune, bunf, Bunga, bunge, bungi, Bungo, bungy, bunr, bunz, burnng, buug, Cung, nung, ung. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: bug, bun, gnu, gun, nub.

-2 letters: nu, un.

+1 letter: begun, bungs.

+2 letters: bluing, blunge, bunged, bungee, bungle, busing, buying, cubing, lubing, tubing.

+3 letters: abusing, antibug, beguine, blowgun, blueing, bluings, bluming, blunged, blunger, blunges, bousing, bruting, bubinga, bucking, budding, budging, buffing, bugbane, bugging, bugling, bulging, bulking, bulling, bumming, bumping, bungees, bunging, bungled, bungler, bungles, bunking, bunting, buoying, burgeon, burking, burling, burning, burping, burring, burying, bushing, busings, busking, bussing, busting, busying, butling, butting, buzzing, curbing, daubing, dubbing, dumbing, fubbing, gunboat, imbuing, numbing, rebegun, rubbing, rubying, subbing, subring, tabuing, tubbing, tubings.