Citations:unga bunga
English citations of unga bunga and unga-bunga
Interjection: "(humorous, possibly offensive) a gibberish phrase used to imitate primitive or unintelligible speech"
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- 1985, The Science Fiction Film Source Book (ed. David Wingrove), page 137:
- With Jessica Lange as the blonde “beauty” forced to mouth asinine lines of chic-jokey dialogue at the ape instead of simply screaming, and Jeff Bridges as a hippie ecologist, the “conscience” in a movie so dishonest about its 1970s ideals, it attempts sympathy for the exploited ape and then goes right ahead to depict Third World tribesmen shouting unga-bunga and leaping about in true pre-War matinée movie style.
- 1985, "Keeping Our Heads Above Water", Algonac (yearbook of Algonac High School, Algonac, MI), page 7 (image caption):
- Kim Stieler grunts "unga bunga" as she exits the ’Senior Cave" on her way to her next class on theme doy, Thursday, October 4.
- 1987, Ramsey Campbell, Cold Print, page 255:
- And why not, he thought. He glanced about: nobody. Then he began to lope through the deserted streets, arms hanging, fingers almost touching the road. Unga bunga, he thought. One way to prepare myself for the primitives, I suppose.
- 1991, "Hot Off The Shelf", ACE, August 1991, page 111:
- Unga-bunga! Poor Chuck Rock's spouse has been kidnapped by the fiendish Gary Gritter and is now held prisoner at the end of five massive levels of platform-pouncing, rock-throwing, belly-butting pandemonium.
- 1993, Sharon Greaves, "The Humans", GB Action, 10 March 1993, page 27:
- And on the 42nd day the humans were created, squidgy pink creatures wearing leopard skin pants and bellowing unga bunga.
- 1995, Aaron Weiss, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Downloading, page 14:
- Like humans, who have moved from using Egyptian hieroglyphics to using modern alphabets, computers need a standardized way of representing information. In human written language, we have a given set of characters that we can combine in sequences to provide greater meaning. Computers are the same way, which isn't too surprising considering we humans designed the computers in the first place (unga bunga).
- 2000, Randall Boyll, Katastrophe, page 136:
- He put the glass to his lips, cast a wink at Alan, and downed the beer in four gigantic swallows. "Unga-bunga," he wheezed before wiping his mouth across one of his huge forearms. "Reminds me of my drinking days of yore."
- 2008, Victoria Forester, The Girl Who Could Fly, page 121:
- "I'm sorry, what did you say? Get back his basket? Are you speaking English or is that some primitive grunting language? Unga bunga. Maybe if you could actually communicate like a human being and not a hayseed, I'd return the basket."
- 2015, Aimee Meredith Cox, Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship, unnumbered page:
- “Moni was like, unga bunga and making monkey sounds ... she had us rolling. She was like, 'Yeah, okay, we're monkeys in the zoo, you can see monkeys in the zoo. Here we are.'”
- 2017, Jane O'Connor, Jojo and the Magic Trick, page 25:
- I wave my wand one more time. "Unga bunga!" I yell.
Noun: "(video games, slang, often attributive) a playstyle that relies on brute strength or extreme aggro in combat"
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- 2023, Schuld (trans. Mikey N.), Min-Maxing My TRPG Build in Another World: Volume 5, unnumbered page:
- This piece was liable to put the user in a state of disadvantage without proper precautions, but today Miss Celia had abandoned her unga-bunga playstyle.
Verb: "(video games, slang) to employ this playstyle"
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- 2022 March 8, Moriko Kyoho (@BatAtVideoGames), Twitter[22]:
- It's fine to just enjoy unga bungaing and just thinking haha monster go dead but yea I enjoy the part about getting deeper into the mechanics and that's something Worlds streamlining disappointed me in. Wish that mindlessness stayed in Code Vein or God Eater. . .
Noun: "(slang, derogatory, offensive) a violent or savage person"
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- 2007, Will Beall, L.A. Rex, page 224:
- "See, straight gang-bangin' is too pedestrian to put the fear in folks anymore. You want 'em to shit they-selves, you got to become a flesh-eater, Wild Man of Borneo, a real bone-through-the-nose unga-bunga.
Noun: the offensive or stereotypical portrayal of primitive people (?)
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- 2014, anonymous IMDb reviewer, quoted in Robert V. Kenny, The Man Who Was Old Mother Riley - The Lives and Films of Arthur Lucan and Kitty McShane, unnumbered pages:
- Considering how many dark-skinned natives are on offer here (some of them played by white actors in body paint), there is much less racism and unga-bunga than I'd expected.