2006 December 21, Leader, “Poorly tackled”, inthe Guardian[1]:
It is almost a year since Luton Town's manager, Mike Newell, decided that whistle-blowing was no longer the preserve of referees and went public about illegalbungs.
2021 April 26, Corinna Norrick-Rühl, Christian Alexander Peter, Lena Schüler, ““Pay to Play” in the German Book Trade?”, inPublishing Research Quarterly, volume37,→DOI, pages241–254:
Is this a case of mere ‘bungs’ (a form of bribery) at play in the book trade, a success bought with massive advertising effort and distribution through the author’s drugstore chain?
The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled;bunghole.
"Well, sir, I haven't got one," said the landlord, "or you should have it directly."[…] "Could you oblige me with such a thing as a postage stamp?" "No," said theBung; "don't keep 'em!"
It has not yet been ascertained, which is the precise time when it becomes indispensable tobung 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...
2006, A. G. Payne,Cassell's Shilling Cookery:
Put the wine into a cask, cover up the bung-hole to keep out the dust, and when the hissing sound ceases,bung the hole closely, and leave the wine untouched for twelve months.
"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 tobung her off to a hospital, but I persuaded him not to."
1996, Stanley Booth, quotingKeith Richards,Keith[2], St. Martin's Publishing Group,→ISBN:
Of course, the weird thing is that he found Marianne Faithfull at the same time andbunged it onto her, and it was a fucking hit, so already we're songwriters.
2004, Bob Ashley,Food and cultural studies:
And to sustain us while we watch or read, we go to the freezer, take out a frozen pizza,bung it in the microwave and make do.
[T]he Chicken had been tapped, andbunged, 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.
‘Morning Mrs. Weissnicht. I′ve just heard as how your washing-machine′s gonebung.’
1997, Lin Van Hek,The Ballad of Siddy Church,page219:
It′s the signal box, the main switchboard, that′s gonebung!
2006, Pip Wilson,Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push,page 9:
Henry had said, “Half a million bloomin′ acres. A quarter of a million blanky sheep shorn a year, and they can′t keep on two blokes. It′s not because wer′e union, mate. It′s because we′re newchums. Something′s gonebung with this country.”
1592,Robert Green,The Thirde & Last Part of Conny-catching, Bodleian Library (Malone 575), London: John Lane. Reprinted in1923, Harrison, G. B. (ed.), The Bodley Head Quartos III, Plainstow, Great Britain: Curwen Press, p. 22
Oft thsi crew of mates met together, and said there was no hope of nipping theboung because he held open his gowne so wide, and walked in such an open place.
1611,Thomas Middleton, “The Roaring Girl”, in Arthur Henry Bullen, editor,The Works of Thomas Middleton[3], volume 4, published1885, act 5, scene 1, pages128–129:
Ben mort, shall you and I heave a bough, mill a ken, or nip abung, and then we'll couch a hogshead under the ruffmans, and there you shall wap with me, and I'll niggle with you.
John S[tephen] Farmer, compiler (1890) “bung”, inSlang and Its Analogues Past and Present.[…], volume I, [London:[…] Thomas Poulter and Sons][…],→OCLC,page383.
earlier Proto-Albanian*bunka, from*bʰeu-n-ik-o-, from Proto-Indo-European*bʰew(H)-(“to grow”);
Proto-Indo-European*bʰn̥ǵʰ-(“to swell, be thick”) with a shift in meaning such as to “grow tall” (compareSanskritबंहते(baṃhate,“to grow”)) or “thick trunk”.
All of the above are problematic. CompareDutchbonk(“clump, lump”) andGermanBunge(“swelling, lump; tuber”) in the latter two cases.
