bungie

n

British

a rubber eraser. A schoolchildren's term since at least World War II, it was in use among office workers as early as the 1930s. The sound of the word is intended to convey the shape and con-sistency (influenced by words such as bung and spongey). The 'g' is usually soft.

► 'If i thro a bit of bungy at peason he will bide his time and thro an ink bomb back [sic].' (Back in the Jug Agane, Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle, 1959)