bungaroosh
bungaroosh noun: a building material composed of miscellaneous materials, such as broken bricks, cobblestones, pebbles, sand, and pieces of wood embedded in hydraulic lime, used primarily in the English seaside resort of Brighton.
Noun
bungaroosh (uncountable)
- A building material composed of miscellaneous materials, such as broken bricks, cobblestones, pebbles, sand, and pieces of wood embedded in hydraulic lime, used primarily in the English seaside resort of Brighton.
- The properties in Charles Street are amongst the first purpose built visitor homes in Brighton. Like the local houses constructed before them and after, they are made in part of bungaroosh (a local Sussex name for flint and lime wall), brick, lime-plaster and timber.2011, Gilly Burton, Caroline Wallis, Brighton & Hove East Cliff, →ISBN
- Far to the south, another composite form of wall, using shuttering, was 'bungaroosh', used particularly in Regency Brighton and neighbouring areas on the south coast.2012, Matthew Slocombe, Traditional Building Materials, →ISBN, page 65
Questions about bungaroosh
- What does bungaroosh mean?
- Bungaroosh means a building material composed of miscellaneous materials, such as broken bricks, cobblestones, pebbles, sand, and pieces of wood embedded in hydraulic lime, used primarily in the English seaside resort of Brighton.
- What part of speech is bungaroosh?
- Bungaroosh is a noun.
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