Example sentences for: bung

How can you use “bung” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It is not the source of billy , a Scottish dialect word for a milk pail, nor does it have anything to do with the Queensland Aboriginal word bung dead, which passed into Australian pidgin in the 1840s and which developed by the 1880s the application bankrupt, as in the bank's gone bung .

  • Perhaps, too, Mr. Bung would be a football manager in recent times.

  • Here again a word was broken down into two elements, billa creek and bang or bung dead, and little thought given to the fact of their independent origin.

  • From Yagara come bung broken, dead, yacka , both as a noun and a verb meaning work, and yohi , an affirmative, all originally in pidgin.

  • This was added to as it travelled north and west by words like yabber talk, based on the root ya -, found in Wiradhuri and other languages), the Yagara (Brisbane) words bung dead, humpy dwelling, and yacka work (as noun and verb), and, particularly, by names for flora and fauna the travellers now recognized as being commonly found in the inland.


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