funge

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English

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Etymology

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From Old French *funge, from Latin fungus.

Noun

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funge (plural funges)

  1. (obsolete) A fungus.
  2. (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

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Danish

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Verb

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funge

  1. Alternative form of funke

Conjugation

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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funge

  1. third-person singular present indicative of fungere

Latin

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Noun

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funge

  1. vocative singular of fungus

Spanish

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Verb

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funge

  1. inflection of fungir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative