bunk
English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editSense of sleeping berth possibly from Scottish English bunker (“seat, bench”), origin is uncertain but possibly Scandinavian. Compare Old Swedish bunke (“boards used to protect the cargo of a ship”). See also boarding, flooring and compare bunch.
Noun
editbunk (plural bunks)
- One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
- Jane sleeps in the top bunk, and her little sister Lauren takes the bottom bunk.
- 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 6, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad[1]:
- The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks ; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]
- (nautical) A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
- (military) A cot.
- (US) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
- (US, dialect) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
Derived terms
editTranslations
edit
|
|
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
|
Verb
editbunk (third-person singular simple present bunks, present participle bunking, simple past and past participle bunked)
Derived terms
editTranslations
edit
|
Etymology 2
editShortened from bunkum, a variant of buncombe, from Buncombe County, North Carolina. See bunkum for more.
Noun
editbunk (uncountable)
- (slang) Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.
- What she said about me was total bunk. Don't believe a word.
- 1927, Arthur Train, When Tutt Meets Tutt, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 47:
- “You can’t pull any bunk like that on us!” roared Quelch. “We’ve had enough of this flapdoodlery! Take your money, Mrs. Clinton, and sign the deed.”
- (obsolete) In early use often in the form the bunk. [1900-1927]
- 1927 January 30, Randall Faye, 1:45 from the start, in Upstream, spoken by Eric Brasingham (Earle Foxe), Fox Film Corporation:
- This knife-throwing act is the bunk
- (slang) A specimen of a recreational drug with insufficient active ingredient.
- 2020 July 18, Rio Da Yung OG, featured by T LB$ (lyrics and music), “Toledo 2 Flint”, in The World is Yours[2], 1:26–1:28:
- I still can get off with a pound of bunk and pretend it's some Runtz
Adjective
editbunk (not comparable)
- (slang) Defective, broken, not functioning properly.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:nonsense
Derived terms
editTranslations
editEtymology 3
edit19th century, of uncertain origin; perhaps from previous "to occupy a bunk" meaning, with connotations of a hurried departure, as if on a ship.
Verb
editbunk (third-person singular simple present bunks, present participle bunking, simple past and past participle bunked)
- (British, India) To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk off').
- The naughty boys decided to bunk school and visit the comic shop.
- (dated) To expel from a school.
- 1945, Evelyn Waugh, chapter 4, in Brideshead Revisited […], 3rd edition, London: Chapman & Hall, →OCLC, book 1 (Et in Arcadia Ego), pages 83–84:
- She was bunked from the convent last term. I don't quite know what for.
- (slang) To depart; scram.
- 1907, Edith Nesbit, The Enchanted Castle:
- "They're moving off," he said. " […] [T]he funny little man with the beard like a goat is going a different way from everyone else — the gardeners will have to head him off. I don't see Mademoiselle, though. The rest of you had better bunk. […] "
Derived terms
editTranslations
edit
|
References
edit- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “bunk”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
- “bunk”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
editYola
editEtymology
editProbably onomatopoeic or perhaps related to Middle English *bumpe (“bump”), perhaps via a diminutive *bunke, *bumpke.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbunk
- A light blow from an animal's head.
References
edit- Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 136
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ʌŋk
- Rhymes:English/ʌŋk/1 syllable
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with usage examples
- English terms with quotations
- en:Nautical
- en:Military
- American English
- English dialectal terms
- English verbs
- English uncountable nouns
- English slang
- English terms with obsolete senses
- English adjectives
- English uncomparable adjectives
- British English
- Indian English
- English dated terms
- en:Furniture
- Yola terms derived from Middle English
- Yola terms with IPA pronunciation
- Yola lemmas
- Yola nouns