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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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bung
verb
captured, jailed
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bing
etymology:
origin obscure; perhaps a development of English
bung
‘to shut up, to enclose’; or perhaps a development from English slang
bang up
‘to imprison’; attested by
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