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bunghole

bunghole is the alternative spelling of bung-hole.

Meaning of bung-hole

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!
  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)

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Forms of bunghole

Noun
pluralbungholes
Verb
third-person singular presentbungholes
present participlebungholing
past participlebungholed
pastbungholed

Questions about bunghole

What is bunghole the alternative spelling of?
Bunghole is the alternative spelling of bung-hole.

Words near bunghole in the dictionary

  1. Bunggo
  2. bunggul
  3. bungham
  4. bunghee
  5. bunghees
  6. bunghole
  7. bungholed
  8. bungholes
  9. bungholing
  10. Bungi
  11. bungie

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