US /bʌŋ/ UK /bʌŋ/
noun verb

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    a stopper for a cask or hole; to plug or toss carelessly

    He hammered the bung firmly into the wine barrel.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 noun · a stopper for a cask or... stopperplugcorkstopplebashchucktoss
Opposites
unplugunstopper
Word family
Derived forms bungedbunghole

Etymology

From Middle Dutch bonge or bonne ('stopper'), perhaps ultimately from Latin puncta ('hole pricked'), via the notion of a bunghole.

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