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Verb
pungle (third-person singular simple present pungles, present participle pungling, simple past and past participle pungled)
- (western US, regional) To pay or hand over; to shell out
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1858, Hutchings' Illustrated California Magazine, volume 3, page 379:- I want my dues and must have them — wont be put off any longer — so "pungle down," and oblige
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1877, Dan de Quille, History of the Big Bonanza:- They have kicked the bully Miner ; they have ducked him in the ditch, but they can't make him pungle.
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1903, Peter Robertson, The seedy gentleman, page 227:- The clever fakir is all through our life; but I can imagine the keen enjoyment it must be to those fellows who gather crows on street corners—for they have brains—to watch the simple, open-mouthed gull pungle up his money, and buy his valueless stuff.
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1999, Meredith L. Clausen, Pietro Belluschi: Modern American Architect, page 183:- "The published sketch of the exterior of the proposed new Marion County Courthouse is a distinct disappointment to taxpayers pungling up the tax money for its construction," a second editorial read.
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