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bungos

bungos is the plural of bungo.

Meaning of bungo

Noun (1)

bungo (uncountable)

  1. A Japanese written language established mainly during the Heian period, circa 900–1200 C.E., and commonly used until circa 1900.

Noun (2)

bungo (plural bungos or bungoes)

  1. A kind of large canoe used in the southern United States, Central America, and South America.
    • On the third day a bungo passed us, coming down the river from New Grenada, with a cargo and passengers to Santa Martha and the parts adjacent1828, an officer of the Colombian Navy, Recollections of a Service of Three Years During the War-of-Extermination
  2. A large sailboat once used in Mexico.

Questions about bungos

What is bungos the plural of?
Bungos is the plural of bungo.

Words near bungos in the dictionary

  1. bungmakers
  2. bungo
  3. bungoes
  4. Bungonia
  5. bungoo
  6. bungos
  7. Bungowannah
  8. Bungro
  9. bungs
  10. bungs it on
  11. bungs on

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bungos (page history and authors); bungo (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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