bunkとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 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.

名詞

bunk (複数形 bunks)

1. One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
   • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 6, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎^[1]:

     The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks ; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]

   Jane sleeps in the top bunk, and her little sister Lauren takes the bottom bunk.

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.

派生語

• bunk bed, bunkbed
• bunkhouse
• bunkmate
• bunkspace

動詞

bunk (三人称単数 現在形 bunks, 現在分詞 bunking, 過去形および過去分詞形 bunked)

1. To occupy a bunk.

   Due to bed shortages, Jeff and Paul had to bunk together.

2. To provide a bunk.

派生語

• bunk up

語源 2

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

名詞

bunk (uncountable)

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

   What she said about me was total bunk. Don't believe a word

形容詞

bunk (not comparable)

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

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:nonsense

派生語

• debunk

語源 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.

動詞

bunk (三人称単数 現在形 bunks, 現在分詞 bunking, 過去形および過去分詞形 bunked)

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

   The naughty boys decided to bunk school and visit the comic shop.

2. (dated) To expel from a school.
   • 1945, Evelyn Waugh, chapter 4, in Brideshead Revisited […], 3rd edition, London: Chapman & Hall, OCLC 54130892, book 1 (Et in Arcadia Ego), pages 83–84:

     She was bunked from the convent last term. I don't quite know what for.