fungo

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US/ˈfʌŋɡoʊ/

noun

A fielding practice drill where a person hits fly balls intended to be caught.

“He is so strong he could hit it out of the park with a fungo.”

OriginScots fung →
UncommonScrabble 9
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Meanings

nounfungo (plural fungos or fungoes)

plural fungos · plural fungoes

  1. ball gamesA fielding practice drill where a person hits fly balls intended to be caught.

    The fielding coach played fungo with the outfielders to warm them up.

    1 more example

    Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter aren’t going to China to […] hit fungoes to wide-eyed Chinese kids.

    2007 January 25, Murray Chass, “Yanks Hope to Get a Jump in China”, in New York Times
  2. informalball gamesA fungo bat.

    He is so strong he could hit it out of the park with a fungo.

verbfungo (third-person singular simple present fungos, present participle fungoing, simple past and past participle fungoed)

present singular third person fungos · participle present fungoing · participle past fungoed · past fungoed

  1. ball gamesTo take part in a fielding practice drill where a person hits fly balls intended to be caught.

Origin

  1. Scotsfung“to fling, throw”
  2. Englishfungo

Uncertain; perhaps from Scots fung (“to fling, throw”).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

fungo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fungo

MLA

“fungo.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fungo. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fungo,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fungo.

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