Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pung

/pʌŋ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.79 in modern English

Syllables: pung
IPA: /pʌŋ/

7

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A low box-like sleigh designed to be pulled by one horse.

Canadian usage; American usage

noun

A set of three identical tiles.

noun

A call for forming such a set using a discarded tile.

verb

simple past and past participle of ping

name

Example Sentences

"[…] they all crowded into the big pung sleigh, among straw and furry robes."
"After reconnecting the host computer back to the modem, before recycling, I "pung" and got "Destination host unreachable." After recycling, ##.##.40.1 "pung" okay. […] > I'm sorry, but I can't quite follow what you're doing. Between > the obfuscated IP's and the strange terms like "host's modem" > and "pung", I guess I'm easily distracted. […] as for "pung", I was just trying to be funny ("pung" = "pinged" P=)."
"Like in to ring? So ping would be ping pang pung? We tried to ping him. We pang him. He has been pung. Hmmm. Like the sound of that."
"Consider me pung!"
"And while you're being pinged (while you're being pung?), may I ask if you listened to this recent Science in Action on the World Service: […]"
"The day I found this, I wrote a 10000 character message, accidentally DDoS'ed myself, and disguised an @everyone in the message, "haha get pung"."

Etymology

Shortened form of tom-pung, from the same Algonquian etymon as toboggan.

Word Breakdown

Root: -

Usage

Canadian usage
American usage

Inflected Forms

pungs (plural) pong (alternative)

Phrases

Pung-ol-Sibugay

Frequently Paired Words

chow kong Pung-ol-Sibugay

Synonyms

triplet three-of-a-kind pon

Rhymes With

young among tongue hung lung sung kung swung chung sprung flung strung

Questions

How do you pronounce pung?: The recorded pronunciation is /pʌŋ/.
What does pung mean?: A low box-like sleigh designed to be pulled by one horse.
Where does pung come from?: Shortened form of tom-pung, from the same Algonquian etymon as toboggan.

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