Obs. [a. OF. *funge, fonge, ad. L. fungus FUNGUS.]

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  1.  A mushroom or fungus.

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c. 1390[?].  Form of Cury, in Warner, Antiq. Culin., 5. Take Funges and pare hem clene and dyce hem.

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1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVII. cxxiv. (1495), 686. Asshen of wylde perys dronken helpyth ayenst Funges: todestoles.

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  2.  A soft-headed fellow. [After L. fungus.]

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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).

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  b.  ? attrib.

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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.

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