lunged

English

Etymology 1

From lunge + -ed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lʌnd͡ʒd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ʌndʒd

Verb

lunged

1. simple past and past participle of lunge

Etymology 2

From lung + -ed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lʌŋd/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ʌŋd

Adjective

lunged (not comparable)

1. (often in combination) Having lungs (of a specified type).
   • 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:

     He had grown a big strong fellow, but I had no difficulty in identifying the little squinting child, who begged, and sold flowers and songs in public-house bars, with the strong loud-lunged vendor of mackerel.

Derived terms

• black-lunged
• leather-lunged
• loud-lunged
• lungedness

Anagrams

• gulden, ledung