bung

1. noun

a) A stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, vat, a hole in a vessel etc.

With the heavy seas trying to broach the boat they baled — and eventually found someone had forgotten to put the bung in.

b) A cecum or anus, especially of a slaughter animal.

Andre pulled the bung from the top of a barrel, applied a glass tube with a suction device, and withdrew a pale, almost greenish liquid.

2. verb

a) To plug, as with a bung.

It has not yet been ascertained, which is the precise time when it becomes indispensable to bung the cider. The best, I believe, that can be done, is to seize the critical moment which precedes the formation of a pellicle on the surface...

b) To put somewhere without care; chuck.

Put the wine into a cask, cover up the bung-hole to keep out the dust, and when the hissing sound ceases, bung the hole closely, and leave the wine untouched for twelve months.

3. adjective

broken, not in working order