Bug vs Bung - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between bug and bung

is that bug is a limited form of wild card in some variants of poker while bung is a bribe.

In transitive terms the difference between bug and bung

is that bug is to install an electronic listening device or devices in while bung is to pass a bribe.

As nouns the difference between bug and bung

is that bug is an insect of the order Hemiptera (the "true bugs") while bung is 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.

As verbs the difference between bug and bung

is that bug is to annoy while bung is to plug, as with a bung.

As a proper noun Bug

is the Bug River, flowing northwest 450 mi. between Belarus and Poland.

As an adjective bung is

broken, not in working order.

bug

English

(wikipedia bug)

Noun

(en noun)

An insect of the order Hemiptera (the "true bugs").

(colloquial) Any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest.

These flies are a bother. I’ll get some bug spray and kill them.

Various species of marine or freshwater crustaceans; e.g. a Morton Bay bug, mudbug.

A problem that needs fixing, especially in computing.

The software bug led the computer to calculate 2 plus 2 as 5.

* {{quote-book, year= 1878

, year_published= 1989 , quotee= (Thomas Edison) , author= Thomas P. Hughes , quoted_in= American Genesis: A History of the American Genius for Invention , url= , title=Edison to Puskas, 13 November 1878, Edison papers , type= cited by , chapter= , section= , isbn= 0-14-009741-4 , edition= , publisher= Penguin Books , location= Edison National Laboratory, U.S. National Park Service, West Orange, N.J. , editor= , volume= , page= 75 , passage= I have the right principle and am on the right track, but time, hard work and some good luck are necessary too. It has been just so in all of my inventions. The first step is an intuition, and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise -- this thing gives out and [it is] then that "Bugs " -- as such little faults and difficulties are called -- show themselves and months of intense watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success or failure is certainly reached. }}

A contagious illness; a bacterium or virus causing it

He’s got the flu bug .

An enthusiasm for something; an obsession

I think he’s a gold bug , he has over 10,000 ounces in storage.

to catch the skiing bug

An electronic intercept device

We installed a bug in her telephone

A small and and usually invisible file (traditionally a single-pixel image) on a World Wide Web page, primarily used to track users.

He suspected the image was a web bug used for determining who was visiting the site.

(broadcasting) A small, usually transparent or translucent image placed in a corner of a television program to indicate what network or cable channel is televising it

Channel 4's bug distracted Jim from his favorite show

(aviation) A manually positioned marker in flight instruments

A semi-automated telegraph key

* 1938 , Paul Gallico, Farewell to Sport , page 257:

At this point your telegraph operator, sitting at your right, goes "Ticky-tick-tickety-de-tick-tick," with his bug , as he calls his transmitter, and looks at you expectantly.

* 1942 , Arthur Reinhold Nilson, Radio Code Manual , page 134:

As far as the dashes are concerned, the bug is the same in operation as any regular key would be if it were turned up on edge instead of sitting flat on the desk.

* 1986 , E. L. Doctorow, World's Fair , page 282:

I was a very good radio operator. I bought my own bug . That's what the telegraph key in its modern form was called. It was semiautomatic.

(obsolete) A bugbear; anything that terrifies.

* Shakespeare

Sir, spare your threats: / The bug which you would fright me with I seek.

HIV.

(poker) A limited form of wild card in some variants of poker.

Usage notes

* Adjectives often applied to "bug": major, minor, serious, critical, nasty, annoying, important, strange, stupid, flying, silly.

Synonyms

* (An intercept device) wiretap * See also

Derived terms

* buglet * debug

Verb

(informal) To annoy.

Don’t bug me, I’m busy!

To install an electronic listening device or devices in.

We need to know what’s going on. We’ll bug his house.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* bug out

Anagrams

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bung

English

Etymology 1

From Medieval (etyl) bonge, bonne or .

Noun

(en noun)

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.

* 1996 , Dudley Pope, Life in Nelson's Navy

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

* 2008 , Christine Carroll, The Senator's Daughter

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.

A cecum or anus, especially of a slaughter animal.

(slang) A bribe.

* {{quote-news

, year=2006 , date=December 21 , author=Leader , title=Poorly tackled , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=It is almost a year since Luton Town's manager, Mike Newell, decided that whistle-blowing was no longer the preserve of referees and went public about illegal bungs .}}

The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.

(obsolete, slang) A sharper or pickpocket.

* Shakespeare

You filthy bung , away.

Verb

To plug, as with a bung.

* 1810 , Agricultural Surveys: Worcester (1810)

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...

* 2006 , A. G. Payne, Cassell's Shilling Cookery

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.

(UK, Australian, transitive, informal) To put somewhere without care; chuck.

* 2004 , Bob Ashley, Food and cultural studies

And to sustain us while we watch or read, we go to the freezer, take out a frozen pizza, bung it in the microwave and make do.''

To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell.

To pass a bribe.

Derived terms

* bung it on * bung on

Etymology 2

From (etyl) .

Adjective

(-)

(Australia, NZ, slang) Broken, not in working order.

* 1922 , , 2004, page 365,

The evening we reached the glacier Bowers^[] wrote:

My right eye has gone bung , and my left one is pretty dicky.

* 1953 , , A Year of Space , page 206,

‘Morning Mrs. Weissnicht. I?ve just heard as how your washing-machine?s gone bung .’

* 1997 , Lin Van Hek, The Ballad of Siddy Church , page 219,

It?s the signal box, the main switchboard, that?s gone bung !

* 2006 , Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push , page 9,

Henry had said, “Half a million bloomin? acres. A quarter of a million blanky sheep shorn a year, and they can?t keep on two blokes. It?s not because wer?e union, mate. It?s because we?re newchums. Something?s gone bung with this country.”

Derived terms

* go bung

References

* * * Australian National Dictionary , 1988 * Macquarie Dictionary , Second edition, 1991 * Macquarie Slang Dictionary , Revised edition, 2000 ----