bunghole
Americannoun
noun
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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
Their earnings, to use their own phrase, "come in at the spigot and go out at the bunghole."
From Thrift by Samuel Smiles
Spare at the spigot, and let out at the bunghole.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
Jim picked up his billy and crossed to his own tent, the man in the barrel breaking into fresh clamour, and calling down Heaven's vengeance on his son's head through the bunghole.
From In the Roaring Fifties by Edward Dyson
In the peasant's bedroom was a cask with a very large bunghole carefully closed.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
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