bunging
bunging is the present participle and gerund of bung.
Meaning of bung
Verb
bung (third-person singular simple present bungs, present participle bunging, simple past and past participle bunged)
- To plug, as with a bung.
- It has not yet been ascertained, which is the precise time when it becomes indispensable to bung the cider. The best, I believe, that can be done, is to seize the critical moment which precedes the formation of a pellicle on the surface...1810, Agricultural Surveys: Worcester (1810)
- To put, throw, or place something without care; to chuck.
- "Doctors are queer birds. This one didn't mind a bit dabbling about that old thing to find out what had happened inside her. He's fixed her up for tonight and is coming tomorrow to put her leg in plaster, or something. He wanted to bung her off to a hospital, but I persuaded him not to."1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 31
- To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell.
- [T]he Chicken had been tapped, and bunged, and had received pepper, and had been made groggy, and had come up piping, and had endured a complication of similar strange inconveniences, until he had been gone into and finished.1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC
- To pass a bribe to (someone).
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Questions about bunging
- What is bunging the present participle and gerund of?
- Bunging is the present participle and gerund of bung.
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