Back in 1867 a newspaper in Nevada used the verb pungle to lovely effect: “All night the clouds pungled their fleecy treasure.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “More Pungle”
We were talking about the word pungle early on and how you can pungle up money or pungle down money.
And you can also just pungle, that is to set something down.
And I found a citation in a newspaper from Nevada in 1867 that I just loved, Grant. It goes, all night the clouds pungled their fleecy treasure.
Can’t you just see clouds?
Sure, yeah.
Pungling their fleecy treasures?
I love it.
Pungling your fleecy treasure.
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