bung-hole

UK/ˈbʌŋˌhəʊl/US/ˈbʌŋˌhoʊl/

noun

A hole in a vessel, such as a cask, that may be stopped with a bung.

“Pop a tap in the barrel's bung-hole so you can pour us a round of beer, innkeeper!”

Meanings

nounbung-hole (plural bung-holes)

plural bung-holes · alternative bunghole

  1. A hole in a vessel, such as a cask, that may be stopped with a bung.

    Pop a tap in the barrel's bung-hole so you can pour us a round of beer, innkeeper!

    1 more example

    Cæsar's dust - or is it Alexander's? - may stop a bunghole, but the functions of these dead Cæsars of the past was to light up a savage fetish dance.

    1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
  2. slangvulgarThe anus.

    So leave me... You never do have much margin there, but see if you can’t leave me about an inch from where the zipper [belches] ends around under my—back to my bung-hole.

    1964 August 9, 4:06 from the start, in Telephone conversation # 4851, sound recording, LBJ and JOE HAGGAR, 8/9/1964, 1:17PM, spoken by Lyndon B. Johnson, LBJ Presidential Library
  3. derogatoryslangvulgarA stupid, irritating, or contemptible person.

    I need TP for my bung-hole.

    1994, “The Great Cornholio” (4:31 from the start), in Beavis and Butt-Head, season 4, episode 31, spoken by Beavis (Mike Judge)
verbbung-hole (third-person singular simple present bung-holes, present participle bung-holing, simple past and past participle bung-holed)

present singular third person bung-holes · participle present bung-holing · participle past bung-holed · past bung-holed · alternative bunghole

  1. slangvulgarTo have penetrative anal sex with.

Synonyms & antonyms

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Origin

Translations

Finnish tapinreikä, tulpan aukko
  • tapinreikähole in a vessel, such as a cask
  • tulpan aukkohole in a vessel, such as a cask
  • tyhjennysaukkohole in a vessel, such as a cask
French trou de balle, boîte à caca
  • trou de ballethe anus
  • boîte à cacathe anus
  • œil de bronzethe anus
  • coupe-cigarethe anus
German Spundloch
  • Spundlochhole in a vessel, such as a cask
Polish otwór, dziura
  • otwórhole in a vessel, such as a cask
  • dziurathe anus
Russian очко́, а́нус
  • очко́ (očkó)the anus
  • а́нус (ánus)the anus
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APA

bung-hole. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bung-hole

MLA

“bung-hole.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bung-hole. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bung-hole,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bung-hole.

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