Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. the anus, the rectum.

1611		R. Cotgrave Dict. of Fr. and Eng. Tongues n.p.: Cul de cheval. A small and ouglie fish, or excrescence of the sea, resembling a man’s bung-hole, and called the red Nettle.
1638		R. Brathwait Barnabees Journal II J4: Thence to Dunchurch, where report is / Of pimps, punks, a great resort is, / But to me none such appeared, / Bung, nor Bung-hole I ne’re feared.
1656		Mennis & Smith et al. ‘In Praise of Fat Men’ Wit and Drollery 88: So fat man’s bunghole being open, [...] His stench abundant forth doth send.
1674		Hogan-Moganides 10: With Cord of Pack for Vest and Breeches, Cut round and bagging a-la-mode [...] And spacious Draw-bridge at the Bung-hole.
1682		Mennis & Smith et al. ‘On a Fart’ Wit and Drollery 146: And what is working Ale I pray But Farting Barm which makes away At Bunghole, with Farting noise.
1694		J. Eachard (trans.) Plautus’s Comedies Preface a4: stro.: I’ll tell ye: whene’re he goes to Bed he tyes a Bladder at his Nose. con.: What for? stro.: For fear of losing part of his Soul when he’s asleep. con.: And doesn’t he plug up his lower Bung-hole too, lest any shou’d steal out that way?
1702		T. Brown Letters from the Dead to the Living in Works (1760) II 184: If ever I catch the strumpet in these territories, I’ll tear up the bung-hole of her filthy firkin.
1834		Marryat Peter Simple (1911) 117: There, take that, you contaminating, stave-dubbing, gimlet-carrying quintessence of a bung-hole!
1872		G.P. Burnham Memoirs of the US Secret Service 28: They’re all round us, yere – thicker’n flies ’round a treacle bung-hole.
1909–17		T.S. Eliot ‘Columbo and Bolo’ Inventions of the March Hare in Ricks (1996) 317: And ere they’d taken twenty steps / Among the Cuban jungles / They found King Bolo & his queen / A-sitting on their bungholes.
1935		J. Conroy World to Win 58: I told butch, please sir, to gimme any kind o’ meat he had for a mulligan [...] eye holes, nose holes, ear holes, bung holes.
c.1940		‘Donald Duck Has a Universal Desire’ [comic strip] in B. Adelman Tijuana Bibles (1997) 42: I’ll stop your bunghole but I won’t suck your cock.
1964		J. Thompson Pop. 1280 in Four Novels (1983) 479: The way you were banging the bunghole, you damned near fell in!
1972		B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular.
1988		H. Max Gay (S)language.
1990		R. Campbell Sweet La-La Land (1999) 181: Witchcraft ain’t illegal. Just a lot of screwballs jumping bare-assed over swords and fire, kissing the master’s bunghole.
1999		E. Bunker Mr Blue 370: I escaped all those perverts. Nobody got my bung hole.
2006		advert for ‘Drilled and Filled’ [DVD] at www.videobox.com 🌐 Sascha is more than happy to fill her gaping bunghole full of hard cock.
2007		C. Goffard Snitch Jacket 25: To a dog, see, a bunghole’s like a signature.
2015		‘Chelsea G. Summers’ in Vice 10 June 🌐 Balloon knot, bunghole, starfish, back door—we like to use metaphor when we talk about our assholes.

2. (also bung) the vagina.

c.1602		Middleton Family of Love IV ii: May none of your daughters prove vessels with foul bungholes.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
1893		‘Bob Sterling’ Town-Bull 9: I worked my spigot [...] into her bung-hole.
1902		D. St John Memoirs of Madge Buford 52: I pointed [‘Ralph’s rooser’] at her centre of attraction and gave myself up to [...] their lusty working bung and spigot.
c.1904		A. Crowley Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden 36: The slippery and lax bung-hole of the flatulent monarch was ill-suited to my boyish chink-stopper.
1918		in E. Cray Erotic Muse (1992) 160: Some women are pure and free from sin, / But nine out of ten have their bungholes pushed in.

3. in fig. use of sense 1, something that stinks.

c.1642

T. Killigrew Parson’s Wedding (1664) V iv: A fellow whose breath smells of yesterday’s dinner, and stinks as if he had eaten all our suppers over again [...] Dost thou think any woman, that has wit or honour, would kiss that bung-hole?

4. (US) a drunkard.

1904

C. Connors Bowery Life [ebook] ’Well, come here. Let me smell your breath.’ He’d take a smell and say: ’Go and sit down, you bung-hole.’.

5. (Aus.) a publican [ext. of bung n.² (2b)].

1928

Capricorn (Rockhampton, Qld) 20 Dec. 19/1: Poor Bunghole swore till all was blue.

6. (Aus.) the mouth.

1960

D. Abse In the Cage (1967) 123: soldier: Well, down the hatch. corporal: Yeh, down the bung ’ole.

7. (US campus) a term of abuse.

1945		R.S. Close Love me Sailor 207: Stick that fat arse in Bunghole.
1967–8		Baker et al. CUSS 91: Bunghole A person without much social or academic ability.
1983		R. Price Breaks 194: You did it again, you bunghole. You fell in love.
1986		S. King It (1987) 584: I’m a man wit’ a plan an if you doan shit, you goan git! You hear me, you whiteface bunghole?
1997		Da Bomb Summer Supplement 3: Bunghole 2. (n. & voc.) A jerk. Stop hitting me, Bunghole!