funge
US/fʌnd͜ʒ/
funge noun: a fungus. Also the euphemistic form of fuck.
Noun
funge (plural funges)
- A fungus.
- A fool or simpleton.
- Be not ashamed of thy birth then, thou art a gentleman all the world over, and shalt be honoured, whenas he, strip him of his fine clothes, dispossess him of his wealth, is a funge […]1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II...
Verb
funge (third-person singular simple present funges, present participle funging, simple past and past participle funged)
- to substitute for a practically equivalent good or unit
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:funge.
- to be substituted thus
- To steal an NFT; to copy the image or other data associated with the NFT.
- The most expensive NFT to date was sold for $91.8 million. If that doesn’t make you want to throw up, regain your composure, then enlist in the noble crusade to funge tokens until the day you die, then I’m afraid you’re already a willing prisoner to the blockchain and my sworn enemy.2022 February 1, “I Will Funge These Tokens If It's the Last Thing I Do”, in Points In Case
- Look, here's 15 memes about non-fungible tokens, and I guess technically the memes themselves have been funged because they all come from places on the internet, but really, that's getting into the weeds.2022 April 2, Aiden Walker, “15 Freshly Funged Memes About NFTs”, in Know Your Meme
- A meaningless nonce word used to make fun of NFTs.
- Why is it non-fungible? Why don’t I want it to be funged?2021 December 3, Nick Miller, “The world’s gone mad for NFTs. But what are they?”, in Sydney Morning Herald
- True Love Will Funge You in the End2021 April 16, Rachel Rascoe, “Faster Than Sound: Falling Hard for Sasha & the Valentines”, in The Austin Chronicle
Also used as
funge is also the euphemistic form of fuck.
Forms of funge
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | funges |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | funges |
| present participle | funging |
| past participle | funged |
| past | funged |
Origin of funge
From Old French *funge, from Latin fungus.
Back-formation from fungible, as in non-fungible token.
Questions about funge
- What does funge mean?
- Funge means a fungus.
- What part of speech is funge?
- Funge can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce funge?
- Funge is pronounced /fʌnd͜ʒ/ (US).
- What is the plural of funge?
- The plural of funge is funges.
Words near funge in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: funge (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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