Definitions for bungs

bungs bung

Spelling: [buhng]
IPA: /bʌŋ/

Bungs is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 45 anagrams from letters in bungs (bgnsu).

Definitions for bungs

noun

  1. a stopper for the opening of a cask.
  2. a bunghole.

adjective

  1. out of order; broken; unusable.
  2. bankrupt.
  3. Slang. dead.

verb (used with object)

  1. to close with or as if with a bung; cork; plug (often followed by up).
  2. to beat; bruise; maul (often followed by up).
  3. British Slang. to throw or shove carelessly or violently; sling.

Origin of bungs

1400-50; late Middle English bunge Middle Dutch bonge stopper

Examples for bungs

You have only just got to fancy that it is a bung, and swipe at it with all your might.

To find the bung, of course; draw it out, and relieve my thirst by a draught of water.

I've lifted a barrel o' whisky and put my mouth to the bung hole.

"Oh, I don't think you'd better; it'll bung you all up," cautioned Reynolds.

Close the bung, and in about six weeks it will be fit for bottle.

In my search for the bung I had not forgotten the vent or tap-hole.

In two or three days put a bottle of brandy to every four gallons, bung it close, but leave the vent peg out a few days.

To every gallon put four pounds of good Lisbon sugar, tun it immediately, lay the bung lightly on, and leave it to ferment itself.

It'll be bung full of women but it won't have a word of slop from beginning to end!

Let it remain in this state till the next day, in order to ascertain whether the cask be quite tight, and then bung it up.

Word Value for bungs
Scrable

7

Words with friends

11

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