Meanings
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1
noun
a narrow bed or sleeping berth, especially one fixed to a wall or arranged in tiers on a ship, train, or in shared quarters
The exhausted sailor went straight to his bunk after the night watch.
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2
noun
nonsense or a statement that is not true, in informal use
The witness dismissed the rumor as complete bunk.
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3
verb
to sleep in a bunk or share temporary sleeping quarters
During training, the recruits bunk in a room beside the parade ground.
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4
noun
a long trough from which cattle feed
The farmer poured grain into the bunk before releasing the cattle.
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Etymology
The sleeping-berth sense is of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Scots bunker ("bench, chest") and Scandinavian words for boards. The informal "nonsense" sense is shortened from bunkum, itself altered from Buncombe, the North Carolina county invoked in an empty political speech in 1820.