A cant term for a toper. “Away, … you filthy bung,” says Doll to Pistol. (2 Henry IV., ii. 4.)
Brother Bung. A cant term for a publican.
Bung up. Close up, as a bung closes a cask.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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