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pungle

/ˈpʌŋ.ɡəl/

pungle verb: to pay or hand over; to shell out.

Verb

pungle (third-person singular simple present pungles, present participle pungling, simple past and past participle pungled)

  1. (Southwestern, US, regional) To pay or hand over; to shell out
    • I want my dues and must have them — wont be put off any longer — so "pungle down," and oblige1858, Hutchings' Illustrated California Magazine, volume 3, page 379
    • They have kicked the bully Miner ; they have ducked him in the ditch, but they can't make him pungle.1877, Dan de Quille, History of the Big Bonanza

pungle meaning in Tamil and Bengali

pungle in Tamil

செயற்குளறுபடி

pungle in Bengali

টাকা দেওয়া, পরিশোধ করা, হস্তান্তর করা

Forms of pungle

third-person singular presentpungles
present participlepungling
past participlepungled
pastpungled

Origin of pungle

Borrowed from Spanish póngale.

Questions about pungle

What does pungle mean?
Pungle means to pay or hand over; to shell out.
What is pungle in Tamil?
Pungle in Tamil is செயற்குளறுபடி. See Pungle meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pungle?
Pungle is a verb.
How do you pronounce pungle?
Pungle is pronounced /ˈpʌŋ.ɡəl/.
What is the past tense of pungle?
The past tense of pungle is pungled.

Words near pungle in the dictionary

  1. Punghina
  2. pungi
  3. pungies
  4. pungis
  5. pungitive
  6. pungle
  7. pungled
  8. pungles
  9. pungling
  10. Pungmayol
  11. Pungmayon

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pungle (page history and authors); pungle (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pungle (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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