pung

[ puhng ]
/ pʌŋ /

noun Chiefly Eastern Canada and New England.

a sleigh with a boxlike body.

QUIZZES

HEED THE VOX POPULI, AND TAKE THIS WORD OF THE DAY QUIZ!

Test your memory on these verbal firecrackers from the week of June 29 to July 5!
Question 1 of 7
anchorite
a granular metamorphic rock.
a person who has retired to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion.
a hobble or fetter for a horse or other animal.
TAKE THE QUIZ TO FIND OUT

Origin of pung

1815–25, Americanism; short for tom-pung, ultimately < the same Algonquian etymon as toboggan

Words nearby pung

puncture wound, pundit, punditocracy, punditry, pune, pung, punga, pungent, punic, punic wars, punish
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020

Example sentences from the Web for pung

British Dictionary definitions for pung

pung
/ (pʌŋ) /

noun

Eastern US and Canadian a horse-drawn sleigh with a boxlike body on runners

Word Origin for pung

C19: shortened from Algonquian tom-pung; compare toboggan
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