Noun: bunk
Sample Sentences
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Jane sleeps in the top bunk, and her little sister Lauren takes the bottom bunk.
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The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks ; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […] [1913, Robert Barr, chapter 6, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:]
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When the ship reached Melbourne two days later we collared a couple of cases of apples from the hold and hid them in our bunks. [1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 94:]
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Don’t leave your bunk unlocked.
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Then, we can train in the bunk. Right, Vinod? We can train anywhere. Today you help the Armskote. [1993, Haresh Sharma, Off Centre, Ethos Books, →ISBN, Act 3, scene I, page 84, lines 26–27:]
Nouns inflected like bunk
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Sense of sleeping berth possibly from Scottish Scottish English bunker (“seat, bench”), the origin of which is uncertain but possibly Scandinavian (North Germanic); compare Old Swedish bunke (“boards used to protect the cargo of a ship”). Possibly related to bunch.
Verbs referencing "bunk"
Finnish Nouns
punkka, Irish Nouns
bunc.