Bunk - English meaning

verb

Keep away from or stop oneself from doing (something).

Usage examples:

Avoid excessive exposure to the sun

noun

A flexible container with an opening at the top, used for carrying things.

Usage examples:

He arrived at the children's ward carrying a bag full of toys for the young patients

verb

Put (something) in a bag.

Usage examples:

Customers bagged their own groceries

noun

Senseless talk or writing; nonsense.

Usage examples:

She dismissed talk of plots as 'balderdash'

noun

Something that is stupid or not true

Usage examples:

"balderdash!" he spluttered indignantly.

noun

Foolish or deceptive talk; nonsense.

Usage examples:

I don't buy it—it's all a load of baloney

noun

Nonsense

Usage examples:

That’s a lot of baloney!

noun

A piece of furniture for sleep or rest, typically a framework with a mattress.

Usage examples:

A large double bed

verb

Settle down to sleep or rest for the night in an improvised place.

Usage examples:

You can bed down in the shed

abbreviation

Bachelor of education.

Usage examples:

Rose of tralee orla o'shea swapped her tiara for a mortarboard yesterday when she graduated from ma…

noun

A ship's allotted place at a wharf or dock.

Usage examples:

The vessel had left its berth

verb

Moor (a ship) in its allotted place.

Usage examples:

They planned to berth hms impregnable at portsmouth

noun

A bed in a boat or train, or a place for a ship or boat to stay in a port

noun

The area on the outer surface of a ship's hull where the bottom curves to meet the vertical sides.

Usage examples:

The consensus is that the insured should have had a non-combustible tarpaulin or heat retardant bla…

verb

Break a hole in the bilge of (a ship).

Usage examples:

It is the responsibility of the government that it bilged the boat of democracy.

noun

Nonsense

Usage examples:

Don't talk such bilge!, the bilges had been pumped and the ship was ready to set sail once again.

noun

Talk which aims to charm, flatter, or persuade (often considered typical of irish people).

Usage examples:

It took all my irish blarney to keep us out of court

verb

Influence or persuade (someone) using charm and pleasant flattery.

Usage examples:

He went overboard in blarneying him into thinking that joe considered him a nice guy

noun

A friendly and pleasant way of talking that makes someone good at persuading people to do things

Usage examples:

Don't listen to any of his blarney!

verb

Talk in a long-winded way without making very much sense.

Usage examples:

She began blathering on about spirituality and life after death

noun

Long-winded talk with no real substance.

Usage examples:

All the blather coming out of washington about crime

verb

Talk in a long-winded way without making very much sense.

Usage examples:

There's plenty of stuff i could blether about from today

noun

Long-winded talk with no real substance.

Usage examples:

Some stupid blether about puns surrounding the beatles

noun

→  blather informal

noun

Nonsense; rubbish.

Usage examples:

That's a load of bosh

noun

An uncastrated male bovine animal.

Usage examples:

Bull calves

verb

Push or move powerfully or violently.

Usage examples:

He bulled the motor cycle clear of the tunnel

noun

A papal edict.

Usage examples:

The pope issued a bull of excommunication

noun

Absurd or nonsensical talk or ideas.

Usage examples:

Such sentiments are just pious claptrap

noun

Silly talk that means nothing and should not be believed

Usage examples:

Don't believe a word of what he says. it's just a load of claptrap.

noun

A small bed with high barred sides for a baby or very young child.

Usage examples:

He should be put back into his cot to sleep

noun

A small shelter for livestock.

abbreviation

Cotangent.

Usage examples:

Tangent is usually abbreviated to tan and cotangent to cot.

verb

Make an opening, incision, or wound in (something) with a sharp-edged tool or object.

Usage examples:

He cut his toe on a sharp stone

noun

A stroke or blow given by a sharp-edged implement or by a whip or cane.

Usage examples:

He could skin an animal with a single cut of the knife

verb

Separate with or as if with an instrument

noun

A narrow channel dug at the side of a road or field, to hold or carry away water.

Usage examples:

Their car went out of control and plunged into a ditch

verb

Provide with a ditch or ditches.

Usage examples:

He was praised for ditching the coastal areas

verb

A long narrow excavation in the earth

noun

Nonsense.

Usage examples:

Don't talk such drivel!

verb

Talk nonsense.

Usage examples:

He was drivelling on about the glory days

noun

Something written or said that is completely worthless; nonsense

Usage examples:

The papers are filled with drivel about movie stars.

noun

Cleansing lotion for a person's eye.

Usage examples:

Lillie tilley, who lives half a block from the fence line, gets eyewash by the boxful at the local …

noun

Unintelligible or meaningless speech or writing; nonsense.

Usage examples:

He talks gibberish

noun

Confused or meaningless speech or writing

Usage examples:

See if you can make out what he’s saying – it sounds like gibberish to me.

noun

Language that is meaningless or is made unintelligible by excessive use of technical terms.

Usage examples:

Reams of financial gobbledygook

noun

Language that sounds important and official but is difficult to understand

Usage examples:

This computer manual is gobbledygook.

noun

Foolish talk or ideas.

noun

(of speech or writing) nonsense

Usage examples:

All that talk about an economic crisis is a lot of guff.

noun

Nonsense.

Usage examples:

Trust me, these ‘get rich quick’ advertisements are pure bull, guff and hogwash!

noun

Nonsense, or words intended to deceive

Usage examples:

His answer was pure hogwash.

noun

Nonsense.

Usage examples:

The emphasis on family is pretentious hooey

noun

Something that is not true or does not make sense, although some people may believe it

Usage examples:

He basically says that the theory is all hooey., that's a bunch of hooey.

noun

Words that do not really mean anything or are not sincere

Usage examples:

His promises turned out to be a lot of hot air.

noun

An aircraft consisting of a very large bag filled with heated air or other gas, with a basket (= container) hanging under it in which people can ride

noun

Meaningless talk; nonsense.

Usage examples:

Don't give me that malarkey

noun

Silly behaviour or nonsense

Usage examples:

I like the socializing but i can't be bothered with dressing up and all that malarkey.

noun

Spoken or written words that have no meaning or make no sense.

Usage examples:

He was talking absolute nonsense

noun

Foolish words or actions

Usage examples:

Those accusations are pure/sheer nonsense., what’s all this nonsense about quitting school?

exclamation

Used to express disdain or disbelief.

Usage examples:

So phooey to sophistication

noun

Nonsense.

Usage examples:

They dismiss it all as movie phooey

exclamation

Used to express disappointment or to show you do not have much respect for something

noun

Nonsense.

Usage examples:

It's absolute piffle to say that violence is ok

noun

Nonsense

Usage examples:

Jo really does talk a lot of piffle sometimes.

noun

Nonsense.

Usage examples:

He said i was talking poppycock

noun

Nonsense

Usage examples:

He dismissed the allegations as poppycock.

noun

Waste material; refuse or litter.

Usage examples:

Householders may be charged for the removal of non-recyclable rubbish

verb

Criticize severely and reject as worthless.

Usage examples:

He rubbished the idea of a european community-wide carbon tax

adjective

Very bad; worthless or useless.

Usage examples:

People might say i was a rubbish manager

verb

Avoid or neglect (a duty or responsibility).

Usage examples:

I do not shirk any responsibility in this matter

noun

A person who shirks.

Usage examples:

His status as a shirk would normally render him somewhat of a pariah.

verb

Move along lightly, stepping from one foot to the other with a hop or bounce.

Usage examples:

She began to skip down the path

noun

A light, bouncing step; a skipping movement.

Usage examples:

He moved with a strange, dancing skip

noun

A large transportable open-topped container for building and other refuse.

Usage examples:

I've salvaged a carpet from a skip

verb

To do something else when you should be working

Usage examples:

We realized that we could skive without the management noticing., he was always skiving off and goi…

phrasal verb

To not go near or become involved with someone; to avoid something that will have a bad effect on you

Usage examples:

My parents told me to stay away from her., i drink a lot of water and i stay away from greasy, heav…

noun

The first or second stomach of a cow or other ruminant used as food.

Usage examples:

In watsonville they do great brain, tripe or tongue tacos.

noun

The covering of the inside of the stomach of an animal, such as a cow or sheep, used for food

Usage examples:

Stewed tripe, she said my last essay was complete tripe., people talk a lot of tripe about fashion.