An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

This may be radically the same with S. [boyn], a washingtub.

BUNE, BOON, s. The inner part of the stalk of flax, the core, that which is of no use, afterwards called shaws, Ang. Been, id. Morays.

BUNEWAND, s. The cow-parsnip, Heracleum sphondylium, is called Bunwand, S. B.
Montgomerie.

This appears to be of the same meaning with [Bunwede], q. v.

BUNG, adj. Tipsy, fuddled; a low word, S.
Ramsay.

Q. Smelling of the bung.

BUNKER, BUNKART, s.
1. A bench, or sort of low chest serving for a seat.
Ramsay.
2. A seat in a window, which also serves for a chest, opening with a hinged lid, S.
Sir J. Sinclair.
3. It seems to be the same word which is used to denote an earthen seat in the fields, Aberd.
Law Case.

A. S. benc, Su. G. baenck, a bench; Isl. buncke, acervus, strues; a heap.

BUNKLE, s. A stranger. "The dog barks, because he kens you to be a bunkle." This word is used in some parts of Angus.

Perhaps originally a mendicant; from Isl. bon, mendicatio, and karl, vulgarly kall, homo.