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单词 pungle
释义

punglev.

Brit. /ˈpʌŋɡl/, U.S. /ˈpəŋɡ(ə)l/
Forms: 1800s pongal, 1800s pungale, 1800s– pungle.
Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish póngale.
Etymology: < Spanish póngale put it (sc. the money) down < ponga , 3rd person present subjunctive of poner to put, to place, to wager, to bet (see ponent n. and adj.1, and compare discussion at pone n.3) + le, 3rd person singular direct object pronoun (now nonstandard with reference to non-human objects: see note).Although use of the pronoun le to refer to non-human direct objects was formerly widespread in Spanish, it is now nonstandard (the standard modern language uses lo in such cases).
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.
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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. 2/2Pungale 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).
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