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bungstarter

noun

Etymology

From bung + starter.

  1. derived from *(s)ter-✻ — “to be stiff”
  2. inherited from *sturtijan✻ — “to startle, move, set in motion”
  3. inherited from styrtan — “to leap up, start”
  4. inherited from sterten — “to leap up suddenly, rush out”
  5. suffixed as starter — “start + er”
  6. compounded as bungstarter — “bung + starter”

Definitions

  1. A tool for opening barrels by removing the bung.

    • But he had not yet learned to estimate these cool, languid, Southwestern knights of the bungstarter, who had the manners of an Earl of Pawtucket, ...
    • The Portuguese equivalent of bungstarter whiffed Angus Jones by an eyelash.
    • That's where the barkeeper took a bungstarter and killed a man who was shooting wild.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA