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Meanings of bung in English
Portuguese
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Examples for "cork"
Examples for "cork"
1
I always have thick boots;- Iamvery particular about that;-andcork soles.
2
On the evening of the tenth day Burns put in the cork.
3
Putting the cork in the bottle, he threw it upon the ground.
4
However, The Winemakers' Federation of Australia denied cork makers were making inroads.
5
I say 'sensed.' It bobbed about like a cork on a pond.
1
Increased cash contributions to plug its pension fund is yet another problem.
2
The new rooms will help plug Manila's chronic shortage of quality accommodation.
3
For the government, the money raised will help plug the fiscal deficit.
4
ESPN, nervous about political editorializing in an election year, pulled the plug.
5
But is the rest of Europe really prepared to pull the plug?
1
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2
Another says, I was surprised by how well this draft stopper works.
3
Not infrequently one end of the handle terminated in a tobacco stopper.
4
The seaman stationed at the stopper obeyed, and down went the anchor.
5
And he filled the bottle with water and put back the stopper.
1
It was big as a wine cork.
2
It was more than twice as long as the wine cork, and it stuck out whatever I did.
3
She sat me on the bedroom floor and gathered a sewing needle, pink thread, ice, and a wine cork.
4
As we left the room, I remembered that I had left the port wine cork in the pocket of my own trousers.
5
The hulk glanced at the wasted door as casually as he might a popped wine cork, then turned his attentions toward me.
Usage of bung in English
1
Newly emboldened Scottish Conservatives will question the £1bn bung for Northern Ireland.
2
In two hours the driver and messenger sailed in, bung-eyed with excitement.
3
What you lost at the spile, you would gain at the bung.
4
No emergency bung to the NHS can easily rescue it for now.
5
Pull the bung out of the barrel, and let the contents escape?
6
But isn't the old man likely to suffocate with that bung in?'
7
Wouldn't their eyes bung out if I showed 'em their own bones!
8
There, still more bats bung and chippered in protest as the intruders passed.
9
As soon as he went to the front I smelled the keg bung.
10
A rubber bung on the metal seatfloor had either perished or come adrift.
11
What am I supposed to do, bung the expense on my Sainsbury's card?'
12
Come down and see it before he pulls the bung out.
13
Lay some heavy weight over the bung, and let it stand a day.
14
I happened to find the open bung-hole near my eye, and peeped out.
15
A moneth after it works no longer, stop up the bung very close.
16
Yet there is a salve for every sore, a bung for every bunghole.
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Translations for bung
Portuguese
Bung through the time
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