funge

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French *funge, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin fungus.

Noun

funge (plural funges)

1. (obsolete) A fungus.
2. (obsolete) A fool or simpleton.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 2:

     Be not ashamed of thy birth then, thou art a gentleman all the world over, and shalt be honoured, whenas he, strip him of his fine clothes, dispossess him of his wealth, is a funge […]

Anagrams

• Fengu

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Danish

Verb

funge

1. Alternative form of funke

Conjugation

Inflection of funge

	present	past
simple	funger	fungede
perfect	har funget	havde funget
passive	funges	fungedes
participle	fungende	funget
imperative	fung	—
infinitive	funge	—
auxiliary verb	have	—
gerund	fungen	—

References

• “funge” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -undʒe

Verb

funge

1. third-person singular present indicative of fungere

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Latin

Noun

(deprecated template usage) funge

1. vocative singular of fungus

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Spanish

Verb

funge

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of fungir.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of fungir.
3. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of fungir.