different between bunkmate vs bunk

English

Etymology

bunk +? mate

Noun

bunkmate (plural bunkmates)

1. One who sleeps in the same area as another person.
2. Especially, one who shares a bunk bed.

Synonyms

• bunkie

See also

• roommate

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?ngk, IPA^(key): /b??k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

Sense of sleeping berth possibly from Scottish English bunker (“seat, bench”), origin is uncertain but possibly Scandinavian.Confer Old Swedish bunke (“boards used to protect the cargo of a ship”).See also boarding, flooring and confer bunch.

Noun

bunk (plural bunks)

1. One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.

2. (nautical) A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
3. (military) A cot.
4. (US) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
5. (US, dialect) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.

Derived terms

• bunk bed, bunkbed
• bunkhouse
• bunkmate
• bunkspace

Translations

Verb

bunk (third-person singular simple present bunks, present participle bunking, simple past and past participle bunked)

1. To occupy a bunk.

2. To provide a bunk.

Derived terms

• bunk up

Translations

Etymology 2

Shortened from bunkum, a variant of buncombe, from Buncombe County, North Carolina. See bunkum for more.

Noun

bunk (uncountable)

1. (slang) Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.

Adjective

bunk (not comparable)

1. (slang) defective, broken, not functioning properly

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:nonsense

Derived terms

• debunk

Translations

Etymology 3

19th century, of uncertain origin; perhaps from previous "to occupy a bunk" meaning, with connotations of a hurried departure, as if on a ship.

Verb

bunk (third-person singular simple present bunks, present participle bunking, simple past and past participle bunked)

1. (Britain) To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk off').

2. (dated) To expel from a school.

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “bunk”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
• bunk in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• knub