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Webster 1913 Edition


Funge

Funge

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Noun.
[L.
fungus
mushroom, dolt.]
A blockhead; a dolt; a fool.
[Obs.]
Burton.

Definition 2024


funge

funge

English

Noun

funge (plural funges)

  1. (obsolete) A fungus.
  2. (obsolete) A fool or simpleton.
    • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.3.2:
      Be not ashamed of thy birth then, thou art a gentleman all the world over, and shalt be honoured, whenas he, strip him of his fine clothes, dispossess him of his wealth, is a funge […].

Italian

Verb

funge

  1. third-person singular present indicative of fungere

Latin

Noun

funge

  1. vocative singular of fungus

Spanish

Verb

funge

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of fungir.
  2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of fungir.
  3. Informal second-person singular () affirmative imperative form of fungir.