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"word": "bung-hole"
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"word": "on the bung"
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"ref": "1996, Dudley Pope, Life in Nelson's Navy",
"text": "With the heavy seas trying to broach the boat they baled — and eventually found someone had forgotten to put the bung in.",
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},
{
"ref": "2008, Christine Carroll, The Senator's Daughter",
"text": "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.",
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}
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"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."
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[
"rubber",
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],
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"bottle",
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"vessel",
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"sense": "stopper",
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"masculine"
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"word": "pangu"
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"word": "kōremu"
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"sense": "stopper",
"word": "kāremu"
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"code": "nb",
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"note": "for barrels",
"sense": "stopper",
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"neuter"
],
"word": "spuns"
},
{
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"code": "nb",
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"note": "for bottles",
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"word": "kork"
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"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "kapak",
"sense": "stopper",
"word": "قپاق"
},
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"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "mantar",
"sense": "stopper",
"word": "مانطار"
},
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "stopper",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "szpunt"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 2 0 5 4 4 3",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "stopper",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "batoque"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 2 0 5 4 4 3",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "probka",
"sense": "stopper",
"word": "пробка"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 2 0 5 4 4 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "stopper",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tapón"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 2 0 5 4 4 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "stopper",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "corcho"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 2 0 5 4 4 3",
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "stopper",
"word": "kizibo"
},
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"_dis1": "82 2 0 5 4 4 3",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "stopper",
"tags": [
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"The cecum or anus, especially of a slaughter animal."
],
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[
"anus",
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"The human anus."
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"(slang) The human anus."
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"ref": "2006 December 21, Leader, “Poorly tackled”, in the Guardian",
"text": "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.",
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"A bribe."
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"(slang) A bribe."
],
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"The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole."
],
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"A sharper or pickpocket."
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"(obsolete, slang) A sharper or pickpocket."
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"ref": "1878, Fun, volumes 27-28, page 11",
"text": "\"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!\"",
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"The landlord of a public house."
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"(UK, slang, obsolete) The landlord of a public house."
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"word": "bung it on"
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"ref": "1810, Agricultural Surveys: Worcester (1810)",
"text": "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...",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2006, A. G. Payne, Cassell's Shilling Cookery",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
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"To plug, as with a bung."
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"(transitive) To plug, as with a bung."
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zapušvam",
"sense": "to plug",
"word": "запушвам"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to plug",
"word": "tulpata"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to plug",
"word": "boucher"
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{
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to plug",
"word": "bondonner"
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"_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to plug",
"word": "zapar"
},
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"sense": "to plug",
"word": "tapar"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to plug",
"word": "puru"
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{
"_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zakuporivatʹ",
"sense": "to plug",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "закупоривать"
}
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"ref": "1996, Stanley Booth, quoting Keith Richards, Keith, St. Martin's Publishing Group",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2004, Bob Ashley, Food and cultural studies",
"text": "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.",
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],
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"To put or throw something without care; to chuck."
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"(UK, Australia, transitive, informal) To put or throw something without care; to chuck."
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"To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell."
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"batter",
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[
"bruise",
"bruise"
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[
"bulge",
"bulge"
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[
"swell",
"swell"
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell."
],
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"_dis1": "0 33 59 8",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to heave",
"word": "nakata"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 3 95 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to batter",
"word": "antaa turpaan"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 3 95 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "postavitʹ sinjak",
"sense": "to batter",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "поставить синяк"
}
]
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"To pass a bribe to (someone)."
],
"id": "en-bung-en-verb-rsVvF~jT",
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"bribe",
"bribe"
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],
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"(transitive) To pass a bribe to (someone)."
],
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"_dis1": "0 3 7 91",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "podkupvam",
"sense": "to pass a bribe",
"word": "подкупвам"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 3 7 91",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to pass a bribe",
"word": "lahjoa"
}
]
}
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},
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"etymology_text": "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”).",
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"ref": "1996, Stanley Booth, quoting Keith Richards, Keith, St. Martin's Publishing Group",
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"ref": "2004, Bob Ashley, Food and cultural studies",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1922, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Karen Oslund (introduction), The Worst Journey in the World, 2004, page 365, The evening we reached the glacier Bowers wrote",
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"ref": "1953, Eric Linklater, A Year of Space, page 206",
"text": "‘Morning Mrs. Weissnicht. I′ve just heard as how your washing-machine′s gone bung.’",
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"ref": "1997, Lin Van Hek, The Ballad of Siddy Church, page 219",
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"ref": "2006, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, page 9",
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"ref": "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",
"text": "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.",
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