Obs. [a. OF. *funge, fonge, ad. L. fungus FUNGUS.]
1. A mushroom or fungus.
c. 1390[?]. Form of Cury, in Warner, Antiq. Culin., 5. Take Funges and pare hem clene and dyce hem.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVII. cxxiv. (1495), 686. Asshen of wylde perys dronken helpyth ayenst Funges: todestoles.
2. A soft-headed fellow. [After L. fungus.]
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., I. ii. III. xiv. (1651), 123. Whenas indeed, in all wise mens judgments they are mad empty vessels, funges, beside themselves. Ibid., II. ii. VI. iii. (1651), 306. Drink drowns more than the sea (meer Funges and Casks).
b. ? attrib.
1556. J. Heywood, Spider & F., xxviii. 3. There liueth not thy lyke (for a flie) I trow, For funge wit: thou arte the fly for the nonse.