also bunghole, “hole in a cask through which is it filled, closed by a stopper,” 1570s, from bung (n.) + hole (n.). Sense extended to “anus” by c. 1600.
“by c. 1600” means the first known written use was in ~1600. I wonder how fast the spoken use took. Months? It would have been the hot meme of the 1570s. I can imagine this convo in a pub.
“Guys, guys, guys. I was talking to the publican and I learned a new word. Bung means stopper, right? And hole - you know that one. What do you think bunghole means?”
2nd guy: “Dunno.”
3rd guy: “Already know that. The stopper for a barrel. So?”
The OED’s earliest US example for “butt” used to mean the hindquarters is from John Russell Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms (1859), which defines it this way: “The buttocks. The word is used in the West in such phrases as, ‘I fell on my butt,’ ‘He kick’d my butt.’ ”
Maybe butthole was a slang term in the late 1800s but it was only a spoken form for many decades after that until some intrepid pioneer had the audacity to put it in print.
Yeah I searched to find an example in print. Most results were “but thoſe” mistranscribed. In the early 1900s I found butt hole used as a mining term (digging a butt hole in rock then stuffing it with explosives)
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Lol “bung hole”
“by c. 1600” means the first known written use was in ~1600. I wonder how fast the spoken use took. Months? It would have been the hot meme of the 1570s. I can imagine this convo in a pub.
“Guys, guys, guys. I was talking to the publican and I learned a new word. Bung means stopper, right? And hole - you know that one. What do you think bunghole means?”
2nd guy: “Dunno.”
3rd guy: “Already know that. The stopper for a barrel. So?”
“How 'bout your anus?”
butthole is surprisingly much later
From a dictionary.
There are no dates. I googled but I only found this very annoying article where the writer speaks in circles
Maybe butthole was a slang term in the late 1800s but it was only a spoken form for many decades after that until some intrepid pioneer had the audacity to put it in print.
Yeah I searched to find an example in print. Most results were “but thoſe” mistranscribed. In the early 1900s I found butt hole used as a mining term (digging a butt hole in rock then stuffing it with explosives)
That sounds like a line in Loser that Beck sneaks in when he plays it live.
“The planet?”
sucking the monkey from the bung hole
how else can you do it? lol