funge
English
editEtymology
editFrom Old French *funge, from Latin fungus.
Noun
editfunge (plural funges)
- (obsolete) A fungus.
- (obsolete) A fool or simpleton.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James 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
editDanish
editVerb
editfunge
- Alternative form of funke
Conjugation
editInflection of funge
References
edit- “funge” in Den Danske Ordbog
Italian
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Latin
editNoun
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Spanish
editVerb
editfunge
- inflection of fungir:
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