bunghole
Americannoun
noun
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He knew that corpses are insensate matter, nothing more; loam, as Hamlet said later, with which to stop a bunghole.
From Economist ● Nov. 26, 2015
Other Supers apply their mugs to the bunghole and drink, previously holding them upside down.
From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 by Hogarth, Georgina
Hamlet amused his friend Horatio by tracing the noble dust of Alexander till he found it stopping a bunghole.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 by Various
"It's Bill Ware," said Tomkins; and, without wasting time unnecessarily, Bill Ware plumped himself upon the ground, his mouth to the bunghole.
From Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty by Crowninshield, Mrs. Schuyler
Farmers are repairing cider-barrels; and the wayside brook is made to pour itself into the bunghole of a barrel, in order to cleanse it for the new cider.
From Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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