Crossword clues for bunk
bunk
- Con game
- Barracks bed
- Utter nonsense
- Camp bed
- Type of bed
- Complete nonsense
- Place for a mattress
- Upper or lower berth
- Shipboard bed
- Sailor's bed
- Top or bottom bed
- Ship's bed
- Sailor's sleeping spot
- Rubbish — place to sleep
- Part of a double-decker bed
- It can keep you up at night?
- Hurried departure — place to sleep
- Cowhand's bed
- Bed — garbage
- ___ beds (stacked places to sleep)
- ___ beds (stacked beds for kids)
- Tiered sleeping places
- Don't go to expert to cover new floor
- Hooey
- Horsefeathers
- History, according to Ford
- Hogwash
- Upper or lower bed
- Empty promises
- Nonsense
- "Nonsense!"
- Rot
- A bed on a ship or train
- Beds built one above the other
- A ludicrously false statement
- Usually in tiers
- A long trough for feeding cattle
- A rough bed (as at a campsite)
- Poppycock
- Hokum
- Sleeping place is rubbish
- Shelflike bed
- Shelf-like berth
- Rubbish - place to sleep
- Bed; nonsense
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bunk \Bunk\ (b[u^][ng]k), n. [Cf. OSw. bunke heap, also boaring, flooring. Cf. Bunch.]
A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night. [U.S.]
One of a series of berths or bed places in tiers; as, to sleep in the top bunk.
A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers. [Local, U.S.]
a bed. [informal]
Bunk \Bunk\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bunked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Bunking.]
To go to bed in a bunk; -- sometimes with in. [Colloq. U.S.]
--Bartlett.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"sleeping berth," 1758, probably a shortened form of bunker (n.) in its sense "seat." Bunk-bed (n.) attested by 1869.
"to sleep in a bunk," 1840, originally nautical, from bunk (n.1). Related: Bunked; bunking.
"nonsense," 1900, short for bunkum, phonetic spelling of Buncombe, a county in North Carolin
The usual story (by 1841) of its origin is this: At the close of the protracted Missouri statehood debates, supposedly on Fe
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25, 1820, N.C. Representative Felix Walker (1753-1828) began what promised to be a "long, dull, irrelevant speech," and he resisted calls to cut it short by saying he was bound to say something that could appear in the newspapers in the home district and prove he was on the job. "I shall not be speaking to the House," he confessed, "but to Buncombe." Bunkum has been American English slang for "nonsense" since 1841 (from 1838 as generic for "a U.S. Representative's home district").\n\nMR. WALKER, of North Carolina, rose then to address the Committee on the question [of Missouri statehood]; but the question was called for so clamorously and so perseveringly that Mr. W. could proceed no farther than to move that the committee rise.
[Annals of Congress, House of Representatives, 16th Congress, 1st Session, p. 1539]
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. One of a series of berths or bed placed in tiers. vb. 1 To occupy a bunk. 2 To provide a bunk. Etymology 2
n. (context slang English) bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense. Etymology 3
vb. 1 (context British English) To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk off'). 2 (context obsolete English) To expel from a school.
WordNet
n. a long trough for feeding cattle [syn: feed bunk]
a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers [syn: berth, built in bed]
a rough bed (as at a campsite)
unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) [syn: bunkum, buncombe, guff, rot, hogwash]
a message that seems to convey no meaning [syn: nonsense, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum]
beds built one above the other [syn: bunk bed]
v. avoid paying; "beat the subway fare" [syn: beat]
provide with a bunk; "We bunked the children upstairs"
flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up" [syn: run, scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break away]
Wikipedia
Bunk may refer to:
- Bunk (slang), absurd, ridiculous, nonsense, wikt:bunkum (related to the word debunk)
- Bunk (TV series), a 2012 television show on the Independent Film Channel
- Bunk (school slang), truancy, to "play hookey", to "cut" or "skip" class
- Bunks (film), a 2013 Disney XD Canada television film
- Bunk bed, a type of bed in which one bed is stacked over another
- Bunk Moreland, a character on the HBO drama The Wire
- Cichorium intybus - a plant species, more commonly known as "chicory"
Bunk was a comedy game show hosted by Kurt Braunohler on IFC in 2012. The show featured a rotating panel of three comedian contestants responding to comedic game show prompts in an improvised way. Notable contestants included Dana Gould, Kumail Nanjiani, Eugene Mirman, and Alex Borstein.
During an appearance on The Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling Braunohler announced that Bunk had been canceled.
Usage examples of "bunk".
More alarmed than ever, Alec drew him to the bunk and made him sit down again.
When Alec had finished, he pulled on his leather breeches beneath his nightdress, wrapped a mantle about his shoulders, and returned to his corner of the bunk, sword hidden between the pallet and the wall behind him.
Getting down from his upper bunk for roll call, Berel Jastrow murmurs the obligatory Hear O Israel morning devotion.
Zigzagging to avoid large stars which could disrupt a blink generator and send a ship and its contents into limbo for eternity, the ship blinked and rested, bunked and rested, traveling the Orion Arm in seven-league boots, covering distances which strained the imagination in an instant, held back only by the need to rest, to recharge, to build for the next jump.
From the cupboard under the bunk, he drew out a cardboard box marked Boracic Lint and turned back the brown paper lying on top.
They moved into one of the big barracks rooms, with Bosk and Devlin, another corporal, assigning bunks.
Corporal Devlin went to fetch Stammel, and Bosk moved around the room, positioning recruits beside each bunk, ready for inspection.
From out in the quad the guard bugle sounded Drill Call imperatively and Chief Choate got up from the bunk, looking at Prew blankly searchingly.
Two days later he was a trustee, and moved over to Number One, the east barrack, where the trustees bunked together, and Prew did not see him any more.
Hero Buss, Richard Becerra, and Orlando Acevedo stayed in the room with the double bed and the bunk bed, and five guards.
He seated himself on the bunk across from the young man and cocked his head in brief study as Corbeau refolded himself.
She sits rigid on her bunk under dim fluorescent light, every wall of the cubby within easy reach.
Chubby and Angelo went ashore in the dinghy - but I was too exhausted to make the effort, and dinnerless I collapsed across the double bunk in the master cabin and slept without moving until Judith woke me after nine in the morning.
After stuffing his packs into a doorless cubby at the foot of his too-short bunk and laying the black staff to one side, Justen made his way topside, where he joined Krytella at the starboard railing of the Clartham, midway between the bowsprit and the paddles.
On one side of this chamber was a stone slab, about three feet from the ground, and running its entire length like a bunk in a cabin, and on this slab he intimated that I was to sleep.