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bunghole

[buhng-hohl]

noun

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



bunghole

/ ˈbʌŋˌhəʊl /

noun

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

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of bunghole1

First recorded in 1565–75; bung 1 + hole
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Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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You put that little pump lying by the side into the bunghole.

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