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The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.

A thatched or tiled house or cottage, of a single story, usually surrounded by a veranda. [India]

A venomous snake of India, of the genus Bungarus, allied to the cobras, but without a hood.

See Bung, n., 2. Shak.

o manage awkwardly; to botch; -- sometimes with up. I always had an idea that it would be bungled. Byron.

A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles. If to be a dunce or a bungler in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such! Barrow.

Unskillful; awkward; clumsy; as, a bungling workman. Swift. They make but bungling work. Dryden.

Clumsily; awkwardly.

A kind of canoe used in Central and South America; also, a kind of boat used in the Southern United States. Bartlett.

A tremolo effect, such as that produced on the piano by vibratory repetition of a note with sustained use of the pedal.

See Brooklime.

languages, probably as early as the 3d century b. c. , often called the first Lautverschiebung, sound shifting, or consonant shifting. (b) A somewhat similar set of changes taking place in the High German dialects (less fully in modern literary German) from the 6th to the 8th century, known as the second Lautverschiebu…

Under the nail or hoof.

To remove the bung from; as, to unbung a cask.

An Australian insessorial bird (Corcorax melanorhamphus) noted for the curious actions of the male during the breeding season. It is black with a white patch on each wing.

To embarrass with difficulties; to make a bungle or botch of. [Local, U. S.]

Work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finished; a bungle. To leave no rubs nor botches in the work. Shak.

A clumsy or careless workman; a bungler.

Bungling; awkward. [R.]

A plant (Veronica Beccabunga), with flowers, usually blue, in axillary racemes. The American species is V. Americana. [Formerly written broklempe or broklympe.]