bunghole

American  

[buhng-hohl] / ˈbʌŋˌhoʊl /

noun

1. a hole in a cask through which it is filled.

---

bunghole British  

/ ˈbʌŋˌhəʊl /

noun

1. a hole in a cask, barrel, etc, through which liquid can be poured or drained

---

Etymology

Origin of bunghole

First recorded in 1565–75; bung ¹ + hole

Example Sentences

Yet he also gets a chuckle out of jargon like “mouthfeel” and “bunghole.”

From The Wall Street Journal

And you don’t have to be a bunghole to say that to people.

From Washington Post

Coover snaps on a latex glove and reaches up into literature’s bunghole, as if to turn the whole project inside out.

From New York Times

I grabbed my dad’s tools and crawled up its bunghole for about three months.

From The Wall Street Journal

He knew that corpses are insensate matter, nothing more; loam, as Hamlet said later, with which to stop a bunghole.

From Economist