| 单词 |
pungle |
| 释义 |
pungle, v. U.S. colloq.|ˈpʌŋg(ə)l|
Also 9 pongale, pungale.
[ad. Sp. póngale put it down, f. poner put, give.]
trans. and intr. To contribute, hand over, or pay. Usu. with down or up.
1851Alta Californian 19 July 2/3 A singular genius..was ‘pongaling down’ huge piles of gold at a monte table. 1854Pioneer (San Francisco) Apr. 237 An additional slice of territory and its consequent classical influence upon our language, by the introduction of such precious words..as ‘hombre’,..‘pungle’, et id omne genus. 1857San Francisco Call 6 Jan. 2/2 ‘Pungale down, gentlemen; come, pungale’, as the vingt-et-un lady used to say. 1884‘Mark Twain’ Huck. Finn v. 33 ‘I'll ask him; and I'll make him pungle, too, or I'll know the reason why’... Next day he went to Judge Thatcher's and..tried to make him give up the money. 1910E. S. Field Sapphire Bracelet xii. 141 I'll have him arrested, and then make him pungle up something handsome before I'll agree not to appear against him. 1959A. K. Lang in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Mag. Feb. 71/1 The pusher couldn't pungle up Skreen's three hundred. 1975J. Gores Hammett (1976) xix. 130 Hammett had coffee and pungled up the required fifty cents. |
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