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adj
Broken, not in working order; damaged; injured.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, New-Zealand, not-comparable, slang
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noun
A stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber, used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, vat, a hole in a vessel etc.
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noun
The cecum or anus, especially of livestock.
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noun
The human anus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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noun
A bribe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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noun
The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bung-hole.
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noun
A sharper or pickpocket.
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Usage: obsolete, slang
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noun
The landlord of a public house.
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Usage: UK, obsolete, slang
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noun
A purse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, obsolete
Qualifier: thieves' cant
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verb
To plug, as with a bung.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To put, throw, or place something without care; to chuck.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, UK, informal, transitive
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verb
To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To pass a bribe to (someone).
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Usage: transitive
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noun
a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: spile
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Broader terms: plug, stopper, stopple
verb
close with a cork or stopper
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: close, shut
verb
give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: tip, fee
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Broader terms: give, gift, present
History
Borrowed from Yagara bang (“dead”).
From Medieval Dutch bonge, bonne or bonghe (“stopper”), or perhaps from French bonde, which may itself be either of Germanic origin or from Proto-Celtic *bunda—either way probably from puncta (“hole”), the feminine singular form of Latin punctus, perfect passive participle of pungō (“pierce into, prick”).
From bouget (“wallet, purse or bag”), from Middle English bogett, bouget, bowgette (“leather pouch”), from Old French bougette, diminutive of bouge (“leather bag, wallet”), from Late Latin bulga (“wallet, purse”), from Gaulish bolgā, from Proto-Celtic *bolgos (“sack, bag, stomach”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhólǵh-os (“skin bag, bolster”), from *bhelǵh- (“to swell”).
Across languages
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