Bunghole (slang)

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The terms bung and bunghole have been used as slang for anus as early as the 13th century. A translation of Dante's The Divine Comedy to English from the original Italian uses the term bung when describing the grotesque appearance of a particular sinner who has been split from head to crotch, with his bowels trailing behind him:

Between his legs all of his red guts hung with the heart, the lungs, the liver, the gall bladder, and the shriveled sac that passes shit to the bung.

More recently, this slang use was spoken by President Lyndon Johnson during an inadvertently taped phone call in 1964 in which he orders some pants [1]. However, the best-known modern use of the slang term (in the United States, at least) is by Beavis of Beavis and Butt-head. The actual definition of the term was given in one episode of Beavis and Butt-head when two Border Patrol officers hopelessly consulted a dictionary after being unable to understand an over-caffeinated Beavis in his ranting Cornholio persona.