Bunk

Definition: Bunk

Bunk

Noun

1. A long trough for feeding cattle.

2. A bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers.

3. A rough bed (as at a campsite).

4. A ludicrously false statement.

5. Beds built one above the other.

Verb

1. Provide with a bunk; "We bunked the children upstairs".

2. Escape or flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bunk" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Bunk

Support

Bed, berth, pallet, tester, crib, cot, hammock, shakedown, trucklebed, cradle, litter, stretcher, bedstead; four poster, French bed, bunk, kip, palang; bedding, bichhona, mattress, paillasse; pillow, bolster; mat, rug, cushion.

Crosswords: Bunk

! Why is Private Pyle out of his bunk after lights out (Full Metal Jacket; writing credit: Gustav Hasford; Michael Herr)

The whole bunk is my side of the bunk (Chicken Run; writing credit: Peter Lord; Nick Park)

I'll be in my bunk. (Firefly; writing credit: Michael Mates)

Well, then let her bunk with him. (Oz; writing credit: Pavel Srut)

Double Bunk (1961)

Ghosks Is the Bunk (1939)

Barnyard Bunk (1932)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Bunk 3, Teddy and Me (Full House Michelle Series, No 9) (reference)

• Bunk Beds (reference)

• Bunk Johnson: Song of the Wanderer (reference)

• Deadwood: A Tale of Bunk in the Black Hills (reference)

• Hunk Ta Bunk Ta Boo-Bk (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Bunk Johnson & Mutt Carey in New York (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

An "O" camp wanigan - observer's living space while at station Heating very inefficient - top bunks at 100 degrees Bottom bunk at 0 degrees. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Home sweet bunk for a year at the South Pole. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Bunk room of AQUARIUS, sleeps six. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

[Hospital train bunk, Harbin]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Nurse climbing into the upper bunk P. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by U.S. Army Signal Corps..

Bunk Congalton. Credit: Library of Congress.

The story that I've given up the race for the Presidency is bunk. Credit: Library of Congress.

A bunk house for thirty or forty men built by a filling station proprietor behind his store. It has upper and lower bunks. Near Silver Lake, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress.

A dairy barn at Kymulga (about six miles from Childersburg, Alabama) converted into a three-story bunk house to accomodate workers as a result of the expected increase in employment at the nearby powder plant. Several other farm buildings have been conver. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pennsylvania Railroad bunk house, 46th St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Exterior I. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

One man drove each truck, and his relief man slept in a bunk high up against the ceiling

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "bunk": bunk bed ♦ bunk down ♦ bunk off ♦ do a bunk ♦ feed bunk. Additional references.

Beginning with "bunk": bunk-bed, bunk-beds, bunk-hole, bunk-wives.

Ending with "bunk": bible-bunk.

Albanian

krevat marinari, ik me vrap (cut one's lucky, run, take away, take to one's heels), gjepura (apple sauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blether, boloney, bosh, bunco, buncombe, bunko, claptrap, crap, drivel, drool, eyewash, fiddledeedee, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flam, flannel, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, galimatias, gammon, hog-wash, hokum, humbug, jazz, jiggery pokery, moonshine, nonsense, palaver, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, stuff and nonsense, taradiddle, tosh, trash, twaddle, vacuity, waffle, wish-wash). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كلام فارغ (balderdash, bosh, drivel, empty talk, fiddle-faddle, idle talk, nonsense, poppycock, prattle, twaddle), ‏هراء (balderdash, baloney, boloney, bosh, bull, claptrap, drivel, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, fudge, hocus pocus, humbug, moonshine, nonsense, piffle, piffling, ramble, rigmarole, rot, rubbish, slush, tosh, trash, trumpery, wind), ‏نام في سرير مبيت, ‏سرير طوابق, ‏زود بسرير مبيت. (various references)

Bulgarian 

офейквам (abscond, cut, cut away, cut one's lucky, decamp, give leg-bail, hop off, leg it, make off, nip off, run off, scamper, scarper, scoot, scuttle off, skedaddle, skip, sling one's hook, slope, take to one's heel, vamoose), лягам си (flop, hit the hay, kip, kip down, lie down, retire, roll in, sack out, shake down, turn in), легло (bed, bye bye, cushion, doss, hay, kip, mounting, pad, pillow block, sack), бягство (escape, flight, flying, getaway, runway). (various references)

Chinese 

床铺. (various references)

Czech

blbost (balls, bull, crap, garbage, stupidity), pryèna (plank bed), palanda, nesmysl (absurdity, balderdash, nonsense, nuts, rot, rubbish, tripe, trumpery), lùžko (bed, berth), kavalec, kóje (berth, cubicle). (various references)

Danish

koeje (berth, couch), kaepstok (bolster), køje (berth, couch). (various references)

Dutch

bed (bed), slaapplaats (sleeping-accomodation, sleeping-place), kooi (cage). (various references)

Farsi 

هرگونه تختخواب تاشو, حرف توخالی وبی معنی . (various references)

Finnish

vuode (bed, bedstead, double bed), pankko (bolster), laveri, koju (berth, booth, cabin, stall), koiju (berth, couch), koija (berth, couch). (various references)

French

couchette. (various references)

German

koje (bed, berth, cabin), türmen (abscond, pile, pile up, run off, skedaddle, take to smb.'s heels, to bunk), quatsch (balderdash, baloney, bilge, blah, bull, bunkum, fiddle-faddle, flubdub, garbage, gibberish, hogwash, hooey, jabberwocky, malarkey, nonsense, poppycock, rubbish, shucks, trash, twaddle). (various references)

Greek 

κουκέτα (berth, cot). (various references)

Hebrew 

לתפוס מיטה, שטויות (applesauce, balderdash, baloney, drivel, moonshine, nonsense, nuts, rot, rubbish, stuff and nonsense, tommyrot, tosh, trash, trumpery). (various references)

Hungarian

hálóhely (berth, roost, sack), barakk (barrack, nissen hut, shed). (various references)

Indonesian

bangku tidur, tidur sembarang, diam (abide, idle, motionless, silent). (various references)

Italian

cuccetta (berth, couchette). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

二段ベッド (bunk beds, double bunk). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

にだんベッド (bunk beds, double bunk). (various references)

Korean 

침대 (BED). (various references)

Manx

skelloo chadlee, lhiabbee lhuingey (hammock). (various references)

Pig Latin

unkbay.(various references)

Portuguese

beliche (berth). (various references)

Romanian

prici, pat (bed, bedstead, cot, couch, doss, layer, pad, pallet, stalemate), fugã (be quick, bolt, career, course, escape, flight, fugue, getaway, hurry on, leak, leg-bail, lick, look sharp, make haste, run, running, rush, scamper, scurry, scuttle, slip, stampede), fleacuri (babble, bosh, cheese, fiddlededee, fiddle-faddle, flim-flam, froth, gammon, humbug, odd trifles, skittles, tosh, tripe, whatnot), dispariţie (disappearance, dissolution, evanescence, extinguishment, fadeaway, flight), cuşetã (berth), cabinã de dormit, şterge (abrade, annex, annihilate, annul, blot out, cancel, clean, cop, crib, decamp, deface, delete, dim, do a bunk, dry, dull, efface, erase, expunge, filch, guy, make away, make off, mop, obliterate, pack off, pack one's traps, pop off, quit, raze, remove, scratch, shrink away, strike out, sweep, vanish, wipe). (various references)

Russian 

койка (berth, kip, pallet, sack). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

spavati (kip, sleep), ležaj (bearing, bed), koještarija (baloney, bilge, buncombe, bunko, cobbler, crap, humbug, moonshine, nonsense, rigmarole, rot). (various references)

Spanish

litera (berth, bunk bed, cabin, couchette, litter). (various references)

Swedish

nonsens (bosh, bunkum, fandangle, gaff, hogwash, humbug, moonshine, poppycock, taradiddle, tosh), koj (berth, hammock), brits (pallet). (various references)

Thai

หนี (flee). (various references)

Turkish

zırva (balderdash, baloney, bilge, blather, blether, boloney, bosh, bull, bunkum, eyewash, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flapdoodle, flimflam, gammon, garbage, gassing, hooey, jabber wocky, nonsense, punk, raving, ravings, rot, rubbish, stuff, tommyrot, twaddle), yatakta yatmak (bunk down), yatak (bearings, bed, berth, bye bye, den, doss, flop, haunt, hotbed, kip, mattress, recess, sack, seam, seating, seminary), tabanları yağlamak (run, scoot, skedaddle, take to one's heel), tüymek (bolt, flee, hook it, make a bolt for it, make oneself scarce, pull out, scuttle, sheer off, skedaddle, skip out, slink off, slip off, take a powder, take flight, take wing), saçma (absurd, applesauce, balls, baloney, blind, boloney, bunkum, chimerical, claptrap, cockeyed, dissemination, eradiation, fantastic, fantastical, farcical, fatuous, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, fiddlesticks, foolish, for the birds, froth, frothy, fudge, go on, hog-wash, hooey, impertinent, inane, incongruous, inept, irrational, jabber wocky, kibosh, laugh, malarkey, nonsense, nonsensical, outlandish, paltry, pointless, poppycock, raving, rhubarb, rot, scattering, senseless, shot, shucks, skittles, small shot, smearcase, sorry, spinach, stuff, tommyrot, tosh, trash, trifling, tripe, trivial, trumpery, unreasonable, wacky, waffle, whacky), sıvışma (decampment, french leave, scuttle, skedaddle, wing), ranzada yatmak, ranza (berth), palavra (applesauce, baloney, boasting, boloney, bounce, braggadocio, bragging, bunkum, claptrap, cock and bull story, eyewash, fish story, flubdub, flummery, gaff, hot air, jazz, lie, palaver, talkee-talkee, tall story), kaçmak (abscond, blow, bolt, break, break away, clear off, decamp, defect, desert, elope, escape, fade, flee, fly, fly away, get away, go by, hook it, ladder, Lam, lapse, leg it, light out, make a bolt for it, make off, nip off, pack up, pull out, retreat, run, run away, run off, scamper away, scoot, scuttle, skip, skip it, skip out, slip, slip off, slope off, take flight, travel, walk off), kaçma (break, elopement, escape, flight, getaway, lapse, scamper, scuttle), asmak (drape, drape over, gibbet, halter, hang, hang on, hang out, hang up, neglect, play hooky, post, post up, skip, skive off, sling, string up, suspend, swing, truss, wag). (various references)

Ukrainian

утекти (break out, escape, evade, make away, mizzle, nip, pull it, run off, shank, whip away), спати на ліжку, щезнути, койка (cot), втеча (bolt, decampment, escapade, escape, escapement, get away, skedaddle), ліжко (bed, bedstead, berth, doss, kip). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự chuồn thẳng, sự biến. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "bunk": bunked, bunker, bunkered, bunkering, bunkers, bunkhouse, bunkhouses, bunking, bunkmate, bunkmates, bunko, bunkoed, bunkoes, bunkoing, bunkos, bunks, bunkum, bunkums. (additional references)

Words ending with "bunk": debunk. (additional references)

Words containing "bunk": debunked, debunker, debunkers, debunking, debunks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bunk" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aunk, banik, bankk, banko, benk, bhn, Binka, bnk, boink, bonc, bonko, bonky, brunk, buak, buik, buk, buka, buko, bune, bunf, bunke, bunki, bunky, Bunuk, bunz, burk, Butko, ebunk, Obukw, unk, zunk. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: bun, nub.

-2 letters: nu, un.

+1 letter: bunko, bunks.

+2 letters: bohunk, bumkin, bunked, bunker, bunkos, bunkum, buskin, debunk, knubby.

+3 letters: bohunks, buckeen, bucking, bulking, bumkins, bumpkin, bunkers, bunking, bunkoed, bunkoes, bunkums, bunraku, burking, busking, buskins, cutbank, debunks, runback, sunback, unbaked, unblock, unbrake, unbroke, unbulky.

+4 letters: bankrupt, baudekin, baulking, buckbean, buckeens, buckling, buckskin, bullneck, bumpkins, bunkered, bunkmate, bunkoing, bunrakus, buskined, cutbanks, debunked, debunker, knubbier, rebuking, runbacks, stinkbug, sunbaked, sunblock, thumbkin, unbacked, unblocks, unbraked, unbrakes, unbroken, unbuckle.