Pungle means to make a payment or contribution of money, often used with "up," derived from a Spanish expression for contributing money.
Pungle significa hacer un pago o contribución de dinero, a menudo usada con "up", derivada de una expresión española para contribuir dinero.
| Front | pungle \PUNG-gul\ |
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| Back | verb To make a payment or contribution of money -- usually used with up. ["Pungle" is from the Spanish word "pongale," meaning "put it down," which itself is from "poner," meaning "to put" or "to place," or more specifically "to contribute money." The earliest uses of "pungle" are from the 1850s and are in reference to anteing up in games of chance. It did not take long for the word to be used in other contexts. It was in Huckleberry Finn's deadbeat dad's vocabulary: "I'll make [Judge Thatcher] pungle, too, or I'll know the reason why," Huck quotes his father in Mark Twain's famous novel. Nowadays, "pungle" is mainly used in the western part of the United States.] "Congress pungled up $700 billion for a bailout." - Steve Rubenstein; 2008 in Review; San Francisco Chronicle; Dec 30, 2008. |
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