bung

Meanings

Noun

• 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.
• A cecum or anus, especially of a slaughter animal.
• A bribe.
• The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.
• A sharper or pickpocket.
• A purse.

Verb

• To plug, as with a bung.
• To put or throw something without care; to chuck.
• To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell.
• To pass a bribe.

Adjective

• Broken, not in working order.

Origin

• From Medieval Dutch bonge, bonne or bonghe, or perhaps from French bonde, which may itself be either of Germanic origin or from Proto-Celtic *bunda—either way probably from puncta, the feminine singular form of Latin punctus, perfect passive participle of pungō.
• Borrowed from Yagara bang ("dead").
• From bouget, from Middle English bogett, bouget, bowgette, from Old French bougette, diminutive of bouge, 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-.