funge

English

Etymology

From Old French *funge, from Latin fungus.

Noun

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: Printed by 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

Danish

Verb

funge

  1. Alternative form of funke

Conjugation
Inflection of funge
present past
simple funger fungede
perfect har funget havde funget
passive funges fungedes
participle fungende funget
imperative fung —
infinitive funge —
auxiliary verb have —
gerund fungen —

References

Italian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈfun.d͡ʒe/
  • Rhymes: -undʒe
  • Hyphenation: fùn‧ge

Verb

funge

  1. third-person singular present indicative of fungere

Latin

Noun

funge

  1. vocative singular of fungus

Spanish

Verb

funge

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