bunk
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[edit] Etymology 1
Sense of sleeping berth possibly from Scottish English bunker (“‘seat, bench’”), origin is uncertain but possibly Scandinavian. Confer Old Swedish bunke (“‘boards used to protect the cargo of a ship’”). See also boarding, flooring and confer bunch.
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bunk (plural bunks)
- One of a series of berths or bed placed in tiers.
- (nautical) A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
- (military) A cot.
- (US) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
- (US, informal) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
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to bunk (third-person singular simple present bunks, present participle bunking, simple past and past participle bunked)
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Shortened from bunkum, a variant of buncombe.
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bunk (uncountable)
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to bunk (third-person singular simple present bunks, present participle bunking, simple past and past participle bunked)
- (British) To fail to attend school without permission; to play truant.
- (obsolete) To expel from a school.
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- “bunk” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
- bunk in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913