bunkn.1
/bʌŋk/, U.S. /bəŋk/ 1.
a. A box or recess in a ship's cabin, railway carriage, lodging house, etc., serving for a bed; a sleeping-berth. Frequently one of two or more beds arranged in a tier.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > bunk
bunk1758
bunk bed1951
1758 L. Lyon in A. Tomlinson Mil. Jrnls. (1855) 37 We made us up 2 straw bunks for 4 of us to lay in.
1780 W. Heath Let. in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1905) 7th Ser. V. 28 The bunks and lineing of the bomb proof were taken out.
1810 Deb. Congress (1853) XXI. App. 2448 20 bunks at $3.50 each [among expenses in military hospital, New Orleans].
1815 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 58/2 He suddenly fell back upon his bunk.
1859 R. F. Burton Lake Regions Central Afr. in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 29 47 Some houses have a second story like a ship's bunk.
1862 B. Taylor At Home & Abroad 2nd Ser. IV. 363 The Summit House..where travellers can pass the night in comfortable bunks.
1866 Harvard Mem. Biog., Peabody I. 165 At the end of the train, a blue car..one end of which is decorated with bunks and shelves, which serve as sleeping apartments.
1879 W. H. Dixon Brit. Cyprus ix. 79 I am lying in a bunk, on board the flag-ship.
b. spec. The lodging of a student at St. Andrews university. Hence attributive in bunk-wife, the (or a) keeper of a ‘bunk’; landlady.
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society > education > place of education > educational buildings > [noun] > college or university buildings > students' residence > at specific institution
bunk1891
the mind > possession > possessor > [noun] > owner > landowner > landlord > woman
landlady?1533
land-mistress1860
mivvy1881
bunk-wife1937
1891 R. F. Murray Scarlet Gown 58 Though rents be heavy and bunks be few..Never take rooms in a corner house.
1936 St. Andrews Cit. 5 Sept. 12/4 Quiet bunk required by student.
1937 St. ANdrews Cit. 27 Feb. 7/3 Those bunk-wives who refuse students any concession.
2. ‘A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to enable it to sustain the end of heavy pieces of timber. Maine (U.S.).’ Bartlett.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumbering equipment > other equipment
bunk1770
headworks1823
rutter1897
hog1898
choker1905
spud1914
stumping powder1921
1770 M. Patten Diary (1903) 238 I hewed a bunk and a Slat for my brors loging Sled.
1862 Once a Week 4 Jan. 51/1 One end of the stick is canted up with handspikes on to the ‘bunk’ of the sleigh.
1902 S. E. White Blazed Trail x. 72 These sleighs, with..bunks nine feet in width for the reception of logs.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
bunk-car n.
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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > carriage designed to carry passengers > sleeping car
Pullman car1867
bed-carriage1869
car1873
sleeper1875
wagon-lit1884
bunk-car1894
couchette1920
slumbercoach1958
1894 P. L. Ford Hon. Peter Stirling xl. 236 By the light, one of the superintendents found the bunk cars gone.
bunk-chain n.
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1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 51 Toggle chain,..bunk chain.
bunk-hook n.
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1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 32 Bunk hook, the hook attached to the end of the bunk on a logging car, which may be raised to hold the logs in place or lowered to release them.
bunk-load n.
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1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 32 Bunk load, a load of logs not over one log deep; i.e., in which every log rests on the bunks.
bunk-room n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > bedroom
clevec825
bedchamberc1390
wardrobea1400
kuchiez kotec1400
garderobe?c1450
cubicle1483
pallet chambera1535
bed-place1566
kitchen chamber1573
bedroom1600
cubiculoa1616
lodginga1616
lodging-room1615
bower1674
ruelle1676
lodging-chambera1684
common chamber1684
sleeping-room1699
hall-bedroom1738
berth1806
bunk-room1855
bed-house1881
cubicule1887
bedder1897
bed1926
sleeping-platform1935
roomette1937
single1963
maid-room1992
1855 M. M. Thompson Doesticks xii. 99 The black boy who sweeps out the bunk room.
c1865 B. A. Baker Glance at N.Y. 24 De way de boys laid out of de old bunk-room was sinful.
1924 C. E. Mulford Rustlers' Valley vi The cook was busy in the bunkroom.
1957 J. Masters Far, Far the Mountain Peak 110 Someone was scratching at the door of the women's bunkroom.
bunk-spike n.
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1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 32 Bunk spikes, sharp spikes set upright in the bunks of a logging sled to hold the logs in place.
bunk-truss n.
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1893 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. I Bunk-truss, an iron strap to strengthen the crosspiece on which lumber is loaded, as on a logging-car.
C2.
bunk bed n. a piece of furniture comprising two bunks.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > bunk
bunk1758
bunk bed1951
1951 Festival of Brit.: Catal. Exhibits: South Bank Exhib. (H.M.S.O.) 127/2 Bunk beds.
1967 Observer 21 May 30/7 Bunk beds that split into single beds.
bunk-house n. a house where workmen, etc., are lodged.
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1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 332 Bunk-house.
1901 S. E. White Claim Jumpers xxii. 274 The old ‘bunk house’ now accomodated a good-sized gang of miners.
1913 C. E. Mulford Coming of Cassidy iii. 58 The Boss went in the bunkhouse, and soon returned.
1928 E. W. Bradwin (title) The bunkhouse man; a study of work and pay in the camps of Canada 1903–1914.
1952 H. Innes Campbell's Kingdom i. iii. 50 This is bunkhouse for men working on road.
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bunkhouse n. originally North American a building separate from the main property, providing extra sleeping accommodation for guests; (also) a cabin, hostel, etc., providing (basic) sleeping accommodation for backpackers, hikers, etc.
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1923 New York Times 1 June 1/4 The guest capacity of the hotel is sixty-four people. A bunkhouse has also been built..to take care of unexpected overflows.
1954 Canad. Statesman (Bowmanville, Ont.) 12 Aug. 13 The boys sleep in double-decker bunks in a bunkhouse of their own, and the girls sleep in the farmhouse itself.
1981 Daily Tel. 27 Jan. 12/5 Two redundant stone-built barns..have been converted into self-catering bunkhouses for walkers.
1999 S. W. Albert Chile Death (e-book ed.) His oldest daughter..is moving back home with the baby. And his youngest son has dropped out of college and is living in the bunk-house.
2013 Independent on Sunday 18 Aug. 66/2 Unless you're in the market for a backpackers' bunkhouse, Bondi has always had a dearth of more stylish places to stay.
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† bunkn.2
Obsolete.
A plant (or root) yielding a drug.
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the world > plants > valued plants and weeds > [noun] > valued plant > medicinal plant or herb
grasseOE
simple?a1425
wound-herb1597
bunk1660
1660 Act 12 Chas. II iv. Sched. Bunkins, Holliwortles, or pistolachia.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Bunk, or Bunken, a word frequently occurring in the writings of the Arabian physicians..it was an aromatic root used in cardiac, stomachic, and carminative compositions.
1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Bunk, Bunken (in medicine), the leucacantha.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
bunkn.3
In slang phrase to do a bunk: to make an escape; to depart hurriedly.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away suddenly or hastily
fleec825
runOE
swervea1225
biwevec1275
skip1338
streekc1380
warpa1400
yerna1400
smoltc1400
stepc1460
to flee (one's) touch?1515
skirr1548
rubc1550
to make awaya1566
lope1575
scuddle1577
scoura1592
to take the start1600
to walk off1604
to break awaya1616
to make off1652
to fly off1667
scuttle1681
whew1684
scamper1687
whistle off1689
brush1699
to buy a brush1699
to take (its, etc.) wing1704
decamp1751
to take (a) French leave1751
morris1765
to rush off1794
to hop the twig1797
to run along1803
scoot1805
to take off1815
speela1818
to cut (also make, take) one's lucky1821
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
absquatulize1829
mosey1829
absquatulate1830
put1834
streak1834
vamoose1834
to put out1835
cut1836
stump it1841
scratch1843
scarper1846
to vamoose the ranch1847
hook1851
shoo1851
slide1859
to cut and run1861
get1861
skedaddle1862
bolt1864
cheese it1866
to do a bunkc1870
to wake snakes1872
bunk1877
nit1882
to pull one's freight1884
fooster1892
to get the (also to) hell out (of)1892
smoke1893
mooch1899
to fly the coop1901
skyhoot1901
shemozzle1902
to light a shuck1905
to beat it1906
pooter1907
to take a run-out powder1909
blow1912
to buzz off1914
to hop it1914
skate1915
beetle1919
scram1928
amscray1931
boogie1940
skidoo1949
bug1950
do a flit1952
to do a scarper1958
to hit, split or take the breeze1959
to do a runner1980
to be (also get, go) ghost1986
c1870 in J. S. Farmer Slang (1890) I. 385 The keeper tried to catch him, but the bad boy did a bunk.
1905 E. Candler Unveiling of Lhasa xiii. 256 The old bloke's done a bunk.
1919 J. B. Morton Barber of Putney ix ‘All right, son,’ said Curly. ‘They [sc. Germans] done a bunk.’
1921 G. B. Shaw Back to Methuselah iv. iii. 199 If my legs would support me I'd just do a bunk straight for the ship.
1923 Chambers's Jrnl. Dec. 833/1 Now I'm spotted, I'll do a bunk.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
bunkn.4
slang (originally U.S.).
Humbug, nonsense.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun]
magged talea1387
moonshine1468
trumperyc1485
foolishness1531
trash1542
baggage1545
flim-flam1570
gear1570
rubbisha1576
fiddle-faddle1577
stuff1579
fible-fable1581
balductum1593
pill1608
nonsense1612
skimble-skamble1619
porridge1642
mataeology1656
fiddle-come-faddle1663
apple sauce1672
balderdash1674
flummery1749
slang1762
all my eye1763
diddle-daddle1778
(all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781
twaddle1782
blancmange1790
fudge1791
twiddle-twaddle1798
bothering1803
fee-faw-fum1811
slip-slop1811
nash-gab1816
flitter-tripe1822
effutiation1823
bladderdash1826
ráiméis1828
fiddlededee1843
pickles1846
rot1846
kelter1847
bosh1850
flummadiddle1850
poppycock1852
Barnum1856
fribble-frabble1859
kibosh1860
skittle1864
cod1866
Collyweston1867
punk1869
slush1869
stupidness1873
bilge-water1878
flapdoodle1878
tommyrot1880
ruck1882
piffle1884
flamdoodle1888
razzmatazz1888
balls1889
pop1890
narrischkeit1892
tosh1892
footle1894
tripe1895
crap1898
bunk1900
junk1906
quatsch1907
bilge1908
B.S.1912
bellywash1913
jazz1913
wash1913
bullshit?1915
kid-stakes1916
hokum1917
bollock1919
bullsh1919
bushwa1920
noise1920
bish-bosh1922
malarkey1923
posh1923
hooey1924
shit1924
heifer dust1927
madam1927
baloney1928
horse feathers1928
phonus-bolonus1929
rhubarb1929
spinach1929
toffeea1930
tomtit1930
hockey1931
phoney baloney1933
moody1934
cockalorum1936
cock1937
mess1937
waffle1937
berley1941
bull dust1943
crud1943
globaloney1943
hubba-hubba1944
pish1944
phooey1946
asswipe1947
chickenshit1947
slag1948
batshit1950
goop1950
slop1952
cack1954
doo-doo1954
cobbler1955
horse shit1955
nyamps1955
pony1956
horse manure1957
waffling1958
bird shit1959
codswallop1959
how's your father1959
dog shit1963
cods1965
shmegegge1968
pucky1970
taradiddle1970
mouthwash1971
wank1974
gobshite1977
mince1985
toss1990
arse1993
1900 G. Ade More Fables 15 He surmised that the Bunk was about to be Handed to him.
1916 H. Ford in Chicago Tribune 25 May 10/1 History is more or less bunk.
1919 Rebel Worker (N.Y.) 1 Feb. 3/3 The usual bunk about ‘disloyalty’ is being employed to..blind them to their own interest.
1921 Glasgow Herald 3 May 3 As an American friend said..‘Tell your people at home it is all bunk the United States intends to keep out of European affairs.’
1930 Punch 5 Mar. 265/3 No tempting blurb, no critics' bunk Can animate this mass of junk.
1932 W. S. Maugham For Services Rendered iii. 70 It's all bunk what they're saying to you, about honour and patriotism and glory, bunk, bunk, bunk.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
bunkv.1
1. intransitive. To sleep in a bunk; hence, to occupy rough sleeping quarters, camp out. Also, to bunk it. (colloquial, chiefly U.S.) Also to bunk down: to go to bed, retire to bed.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > [verb (intransitive)] > sleep rough
to sleep (formerly also live, lie) rough1672
outlie1826
bunk1840
skipper1851
to do a skipper1935
the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > bed related to sleep or rest > go to bed or retire to rest [verb (intransitive)]
to go to (one's) resteOE
to take (one's) restc1175
to go to bedc1275
to lie downc1275
reposec1485
down-lie1505
bed1635
to turn in1695
retire1696
lay1768
to go to roost1829
to turn or peak the flukes1851
kip1889
doss1896
to hit the hay1912
to hit the deck1918
to go down1922
to bunk down1940
to hit the sack1943
to sack out1946
to sack down1956
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast viii. 63 We turned in to bunk and mess with the crew forward.
1850 H. C. Watson Camp-fires Revol. 250 It's about time for us to bunk.
1861 C. J. Andersson Okavango River xxvii. 317 They would not let us..sleep in their huts; we had to bunk it out on the sand.
1884 J. G. Bourke Snake Dance Moquis v. 53 My comrade and myself bunked together in the double bed.
1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Aug. 61 The Orientals are a ‘bunking’ people.
1940 War Illustr. 2 Feb. 59/2 I..was snugly bunked down when the explosion happened.
1965 M. Shadbolt Among Cinders ii. 9 I was wondering if this might be a decent place to bunk down for the night.
2. transitive. (See quot.)
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1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 32 Bunk, to place upon the bunks, as to ‘bunk a log’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
bunkv.2
/bʌŋk/, U.S. /bəŋk/ colloquial and slang.
1. To be off. Also with about.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away suddenly or hastily
fleec825
runOE
swervea1225
biwevec1275
skip1338
streekc1380
warpa1400
yerna1400
smoltc1400
stepc1460
to flee (one's) touch?1515
skirr1548
rubc1550
to make awaya1566
lope1575
scuddle1577
scoura1592
to take the start1600
to walk off1604
to break awaya1616
to make off1652
to fly off1667
scuttle1681
whew1684
scamper1687
whistle off1689
brush1699
to buy a brush1699
to take (its, etc.) wing1704
decamp1751
to take (a) French leave1751
morris1765
to rush off1794
to hop the twig1797
to run along1803
scoot1805
to take off1815
speela1818
to cut (also make, take) one's lucky1821
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
absquatulize1829
mosey1829
absquatulate1830
put1834
streak1834
vamoose1834
to put out1835
cut1836
stump it1841
scratch1843
scarper1846
to vamoose the ranch1847
hook1851
shoo1851
slide1859
to cut and run1861
get1861
skedaddle1862
bolt1864
cheese it1866
to do a bunkc1870
to wake snakes1872
bunk1877
nit1882
to pull one's freight1884
fooster1892
to get the (also to) hell out (of)1892
smoke1893
mooch1899
to fly the coop1901
skyhoot1901
shemozzle1902
to light a shuck1905
to beat it1906
pooter1907
to take a run-out powder1909
blow1912
to buzz off1914
to hop it1914
skate1915
beetle1919
scram1928
amscray1931
boogie1940
skidoo1949
bug1950
do a flit1952
to do a scarper1958
to hit, split or take the breeze1959
to do a runner1980
to be (also get, go) ghost1986
the world > space > place > absence > be absent [verb (intransitive)] > absent oneself
to turn awaya1400
absenta1425
to play truant1560
truant1580
to take (a) French leave1751
to trig it1796
to play hookey1848
submarine1915
to take off1930
bunk1949
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Bunk, to run away, to make off.
1879 W. Besant & J. Rice Seamy Side in Time I. 340 Mark my words. Bunk it is.
1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) Bunk..budge! be off! apage!
1949 R. Aldington Strange Life Charles Waterton xiii. 160 A schoolboy prefers to bunk about the fields..rather than work in class.
2. transitive. To expel from school.
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society > education > educational administration > school administration > [verb (transitive)] > punishment > expel
drop1845
bunk1890
sack1914
1890 J. S. Farmer Slang I. 385/2 Bunk, (Wellington College)—To expel (from the school).
c1898 W. Lewis Lett. (1963) 6 A sixth (form boy) has been bunked (expelled) for stealing out of the shop in town.
1902 W. S. Maugham Mrs. Craddock xxviii. 283 I was bunked from Rugby. Well, that wasn't my fault... I'm blowed if I was worse than anybody else.
1923 H. Walpole Jeremy & Hamlet i. 21 A chap called Bates got bunked for stealing.
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