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bung-hole

UK/ˈbʌŋˌhəʊl/US/ˈbʌŋˌhoʊl/

bung-hole noun: a hole in a vessel, such as a cask, that may be stopped with a bung.

Noun

bung-hole (plural bung-holes)

  1. A hole in a vessel, such as a cask, that may be stopped with a bung.
    • Pop a tap in the barrel's bung-hole so you can pour us a round of beer, innkeeper!
    • Cæsar's dust - or is it Alexander's? - may stop a bunghole, but the functions of these dead Cæsars of the past was to light up a savage fetish dance.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
  2. (slang, vulgar) The anus.
    • So leave me... You never do have much margin there, but see if you can’t leave me about an inch from where the zipper [belches] ends around under my—back to my bung-hole.1964 August 9, 4:06 from the start, in Telephone conversation # 4851, sound recording, LBJ and JOE HAGGAR, 8/9/1964, 1:17PM, spoken by Lyndon B. Johnson, LBJ Presidential Library
  3. (derogatory, slang, vulgar) A stupid, irritating, or contemptible person.
    • I need TP for my bung-hole.1994, “The Great Cornholio” (4:31 from the start), in Beavis and Butt-Head, season 4, episode 31, spoken by Beavis (Mike Judge)

Verb

bung-hole (third-person singular simple present bung-holes, present participle bung-holing, simple past and past participle bung-holed)

  1. (slang, vulgar) To have penetrative anal sex with.

bung-hole meaning in Tamil

bung-hole in Tamil

மிடாத் துளை

Forms of bung-hole

Noun
pluralbung-holes
alternative formbunghole
Verb
third-person singular presentbung-holes
present participlebung-holing
past participlebung-holed
pastbung-holed

Origin of bung-hole

From bung + hole.

Questions about bung-hole

What does bung-hole mean?
Bung-hole means a hole in a vessel, such as a cask, that may be stopped with a bung.
What is bung-hole in Tamil?
Bung-hole in Tamil is மிடாத் துளை. See Bung-hole meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bung-hole?
Bung-hole can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce bung-hole?
Bung-hole is pronounced /ˈbʌŋˌhəʊl/ (UK).
What is the plural of bung-hole?
The plural of bung-hole is bung-holes.

Words near bung-hole in the dictionary

  1. bung it on
  2. bung on
  3. bung out
  4. bung up
  5. bung-full
  6. bung-hole
  7. bung-holed
  8. bung-holes
  9. bung-holing
  10. Bunga
  11. Bungaba

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bung-hole (page history and authors); bung-hole (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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