Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) to hand over money.

1851		Californian State Journal 26 Mar. 3/3: The initiated regard the bet as ‘open and shut,’ and they ‘pungled down’ their purse [DA].
1855		‘Prospecting Dream’ in Lingenfelter et al. Songs of the Amer. West (1968) 93: John Chinaman he bought me out, and pungled down the dust.
1857		S.F. Call 6 Jan. 2/2: ‘Pungale down, gentlemen; come, pungale,’ as the vingt-et-un lady used to say [DA].
1867		Terr. Enterprise 23 Feb. 3/3: All night the clouds pungled their fleecy treasures [DA].
1876		‘Dan de Quille’ Big Bonanza (1947) 339: They have kicked the bully Miner; they have ducked him in the ditch, but they can’t make him pungle.
1884		(con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn 41: I’ll make him pungle, too, or I’ll know the reason why.
1891		Hants Teleg. 17 Jan. n.p.: You can’t play the morning dodge on me; I’m dead on to you fellows [...] Pungle out that 12 quid right here.
1897		E.W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden 42: I had a couple of plunks what Miss Fannie’s felly, Mr. Burton, gives me. Say, he’s my friend. He pungles beautiful!
1899		Newcastle Courant 4 Feb. 2/3: You knows yo’ hab got de money [...] I hopes and trusts dat yo’ will live up to yo’ bounden duty and pungle — up — liberal.
1904		Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 10 Aug. 8/7: [in US slang] To ‘pungle’ is to pay.
1910		Sat. Eve. Post 8 Oct. 4/3: You fellows down here can pungle if you want to, but that frijole-flavored stew doesn’t get a cent from me! [DA].
1911		S. Ford Torchy 253: After punglin’ up a month’s rent, there’s something over seven dollars left in the treasury.
1975		J. Gores Hammett (1976) 130: Hammett had coffee and pungled up the required fifty cents.