bunghole
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of bunghole
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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
A kerosene barrel standing in front of a grocery store was sucked out of the bunghole and turned inside out, like a lady's slipper.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906 by Various
It was empty except for one huge cask with an open bunghole.
From The Laughing Prince Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales by Everen, Jay Van
They were the same kind with which I stopped the bunghole in the keg.
From Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty by Crowninshield, Mrs. Schuyler
Presently she spoke, and her voice sounded as if she were in a great empty cask, with her mouth at the bunghole.
From The Girl at Cobhurst by Stockton, Frank Richard
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