pungle

present singular third person pungles · participle present pungling · participle past pungled · past pungled

1. SouthwesternUSregionalTo pay or hand over; to shell out

   I want my dues and must have them — wont be put off any longer — so "pungle down," and oblige

   1858, Hutchings' Illustrated California Magazine, volume 3, page 379

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   They have kicked the bully Miner ; they have ducked him in the ditch, but they can't make him pungle.

   1877, Dan de Quille, History of the Big Bonanza

   The clever fakir is all through our life; but I can imagine the keen enjoyment it must be to those fellows who gather crows on street corners—for they have brains—to watch the simple, open-mouthed gull pungle up his money, and buy his valueless stuff.

   1903, Peter Robertson, The seedy gentleman, page 227

   "The published sketch of the exterior of the proposed new Marion County Courthouse is a distinct disappointment to taxpayers pungling up the tax money for its construction," a second editorial read.

   1999, Meredith L. Clausen, Pietro Belluschi: Modern American Architect, page 183