| 单词 | bunk |
| 释义 | bunk (once / 460 pages) 1nv 2n 3v 4n A bunk is a bed that's built above another bed. Twin sisters might argue nightly over who gets the top bunk. You might find a bunk bed in a child's bedroom or a train's sleeper car. Sometimes the rough bed in a rustic cabin is also called a bunk — and you could say, "I'll bunk in the cabin tonight." Informally, bunk is also nonsense: "How can you believe that bunk?" The bed meaning is short for bunker, while the "foolishness" definition is from bunkum, named for a politician's long, dull speech in 1820, in Buncombe, North Carolina. WORD FAMILYbunk: bunked, bunker, bunking, bunks, debunk+/bunker: bunkered, bunkering, bunkers/debunk: debunked, debunking, debunks/debunking: debunkings USAGE EXAMPLESHe would lie on his bunk until breakfast, then eat and get back on the bunk until lunch. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) I got on my stomach, crawled under the bunk, and taped the pole. The New Yorker(Dec 28, 2016) We thought the "task force" bunk would die with the American win at Hazeltine. Golf Digest(Dec 23, 2016) 1 1n beds built one above the other Syn|Hyper bunk bed bed a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep 2n a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers Syn|Hypo|Hyper berth, built in bed lower, lower berth the lower of two berths upper, upper berththe higher of two berths bed a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep 3n a rough bed (as at a campsite) Hyper bed a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep 4v provide with a bunk 2We bunked the children upstairs Hyper bed furnish with a bed 1n a message that seems to convey no meaning Syn|Hypo|Hyper hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousness a message whose content is at variance with reason amphigory, nonsense versenonsensical writing (usually verse) balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffletrivial nonsense buzzword, cantstock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition cobblersnonsense crocknonsense; foolish talk fa la, fal lameaningless syllables in the refrain of a partsong gibber, gibberishunintelligible talking incoherence, incoherency, unintelligibilitynonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible jabberwockynonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll) flummery, mummerymeaningless ceremonies and flattery empty talk, empty words, hot air, palaver, rhetoricloud and confused and empty talk rigamarole, rigmarolea set of confused and meaningless statements schmegegge, shmegegge(Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense hooey, poppycock, stuff, stuff and nonsensesenseless talk baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddlepretentious or silly talk or writing word saladjumble of incoherent speech as sometimes heard in schizophrenia abracadabragibberish and nonsense babble, babbling, lallationgibberish resembling the sounds of a baby blather, blatherskitefoolish gibberish double Dutchan incomprehensible talk double talkdeliberately unintelligible gibberish gabble, jabber, jabberingrapid and indistinct speech mumbo jumbolanguage or ritual causing, or intending to cause, confusion content, message, subject matter, substance what a communication that is about something is about 2n unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) 3Syn|Hypo|Hyper buncombe, bunkum, guff, hogwash, rot bull obscene words for unacceptable behavior drivel, garbage a worthless message 1v flee; take to one's heels; cut and run Syn|Hypo|Hyper break away, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail flee, fly, take flight run away quickly skedaddlerun away, as if in a panic breakmake a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing stampederun away in a stampede abscond, absquatulate, bolt, decamp, go off, make off, run offrun away; usually includes taking something or somebody along elope, run offrun away secretly with one's beloved break loose, escape, get awayrun away from confinement high-tailretreat at full speed defect, desertdesert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army go away, go forth, leave go away from a place 2v avoid paying 4Syn|Hyper beat cheat, chisel, rip off deprive somebody of something by deceit n a long trough for feeding cattle Syn|Hyper feed bunk manger, trough a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed |
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