3. A sharper or pickpocket. [Obs. & Low]

You filthy bung, away.

Shak.

Bung, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bunged (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Bunging (&?;).] To stop, as the orifice in the bilge of a cask, with a bung; to close; -- with up.

To bung up, to use up, as by bruising or over exertion; to exhaust or incapacitate for action. [Low]

He had bunged up his mouth that he should not have spoken these three years.

Shelton (Trans. Don Quixote).

Bun"ga*low (&?;), n. [Bengalee bngl] A thatched or tiled house or cottage, of a single story, usually surrounded by a veranda. [India]

||Bun"ga*rum (&?;), n. [Bungar, the native name.] (Zoöl.) A venomous snake of India, of the genus Bungarus, allied to the cobras, but without a hood.

Bung"hole` (&?;), n. See Bung, n., 2. Shak.

Bun"gle (&?;), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bungled (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Bungling (&?;).] [Prob. a diminutive from, akin to bang; cf. Prov. G. bungen to beat, bang, OSw. bunga. See Bang.] To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.

Bun"gle, v. t. To make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly; to botch; -- sometimes with up.

I always had an idea that it would be bungled.

Byron.

Bun"gle (&?;), n. A clumsy or awkward performance; a botch; a gross blunder.

Those errors and bungles which are committed.

Cudworth.

Bun"gler (&?;), n. A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles.

If to be a dunce or a bungler in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such!

Barrow.

Bun"gling (&?;), a. Unskillful; awkward; clumsy; as, a bungling workman. Swift.

They make but bungling work.

Dryden.

Bun"gling*ly, adv. Clumsily; awkwardly.

Bun"go (&?;), n. (Naut.) A kind of canoe used in Central and South America; also, a kind of boat used in the Southern United States. Bartlett.

Bun"ion (&?;), n. (Med.) Same as Bunyon.

Bunk (&?;), n. [Cf. OSw. bunke heap, also boaring, flooring. Cf. Bunch.] 1. A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night. [U.S.]

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