Talk:bungo
Latest comment: 2 years ago by -sche in topic RFV discussion: December 2021
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Rfv-sense: A kind of boat used in the southern United States. - there are three different definitions here, all boats in the Americas. Probably mergeable Notusbutthem (talk) 11:48, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
- In John Russell Bartlett's 1859 A glossary of words and phrases, usually regarded as peculiar to the United States: Dictionary of Americanisms, page 57, he quotes the New Orleans Picayune (a newspaper, now merged as The Times-Picayune), "The most urgent steps were being taken to press every bungo and canoe to the immediate relief of the people along the coast." Barlett defines it as "a kind of boat used at the South", a peculiar use of "at", and traces it to Spanish bongo, which means "large canoe" and suggests it may be the same boat as the sense right above it. The Confederate cite here defines it as "a large canoe", which further suggests that the Southern boat was indeed the same kind of thing as in South America. I'm going to merge the senses. - -sche (discuss) 02:50, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
- I'm going to strike this as resolved. - -sche (discuss) 22:24, 8 December 2021 (UTC)