单词 | pungle |
释义 | punglev. U.S. colloquial (chiefly regional (western)). transitive. To hand over or come up with (money); to ‘shell out’. Also intransitive. Usually with down or up. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > payment > pay money or things [verb (transitive)] > pay up or out to pay out1438 to pay over1668 to shell down1801 pony1819 tip1829 to fork out, over, or up1831 to stump up1833 to put up1838 stump1841 pungle1851 to ante up1880 cough1894 to peg out1895 brass1898 1851 Alta California (San Francisco) 19 July 2/3 A singular genius..was ‘pongaling down’ huge piles of gold at a monte table. 1851 Oregon Statesman 23 Sept. 2/6 He accordingly ‘pungled down’ two of Moffat's $50 slugs, and of course, cut the black, there being no red spots in the pack. 1857 San Francisco Call 6 Jan. 2/2 ‘Pungale down, gentlemen; come, pungale’, as the vingt-et-un lady used to say. 1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn v. 41 ‘I'll ask him; and I'll make him pungle, too, or I'll know the reason why.’..Next day..he went to Judge Thatcher's and..tried to make him give up the money. 1910 E. S. Field Sapphire Bracelet xii. 141 I'll have him arrested, and then make him pungle up something handsome before I'll agree not to appear against him. 1959 A. K. Lang in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Mag. Feb. 71/1 The pusher couldn't pungle up Skreen's three hundred. 1975 J. Gores Hammett (1976) xix. 130 Hammett had coffee and pungled up the required fifty cents. 2002 R. Cohen By Sword iii. xi. 256 Shields ‘pungled’—chipped in his share. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1851 |
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