bundle v.
1. to have sexual intercourse; thus bundling n.
Adventures of Jonathan Corncob 19: I had already bundled with half the girls in the neighbourhood. [Ibid.] 22: We exceeded all bounds of bundling [...] I was sentenced, for this breach of bundling, to marry the lady. | ||
‘Plunder Creek’ in Bentley’s Misc. Feb. 128: I won’t have no squatting on my clearing, and no bundling with my darter, I won’t; and so, to save squiggling, whoever of you can bring me first five hundred hard dollars on her birth-day shall have Dortje Deypester. | ||
in Limerick (1953) 20: Prince Absalom lay with his sister / And bundled and nibbled and kissed her. |
2. to pass something over.
Man o’ War’s Man (1843). |
3. (US tramp) to steal, esp. when a degree of physical violence is involved.
Amer. Tramp and Und. Sl. 42: Bundle. – To steal from the person. Usually by pickpockets, who ‘bundle’ their victims about in order to rob them. |
4. to fight.
(con. 1940s) Borstal Boy 161: Oh, so you want to bundle. | ||
Through Beatnik Eyeballs 18: Could bundle as well as most studs and lost me no time in ramming their dents down their throats. | ||
Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 62: Two nifty lads went round the back to bundle. | East in||
Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 111: Two tearaways decide to bundle / to inflict some GBH upon each other’s form. | West in
In compounds
(US teen) a girl who enjoys a number of partners.
Chicago Trib. Graphic Section 26 Dec. 7/1: Jive Talk [...] Boy-Crazy. Lap-happy. Guy-goony. Khaki-wacky. Neck-happy. Whistle bait. Hot chick. Bundle bunny. |