Bunghole
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A bunghole is a hole bored in a liquid-tight barrel to remove contents. The hole is capped with a cork or cork-like stopper called a bung. Acceptable usage includes other access points that may be cap
Beer foam on the bunghole of a barrel in a brewery.
Gargantua
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La vie tres horrifique du grand Gargantua, père de Pantagruel jadis composée par M. Alcofribas abstracteur de quinte essence. Livre plein de Pantagruelisme according to François Juste's 1542 edition,
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…act V, scene 1 Usage of the term as a slang word for the anus dates back to at least the 17th century, as shown in Thomas Urquhart's translation of Gargantua by François Rabelais, first published in 1653. "... I say and maintain, that of all torcheculs, arsewisps, bumfodders, tail-napkins, bunghole cleansers…
Pèlerins mangés en salade, scene from chapter 38 of Gargantua imagined by Gustave Doré (engraving, 1873).
Illustration of Gargantua by Gustave Doré (1873).
Portrait of Gargantua's tutor, Thubal Holoferne, by Albert Robida (1885)
Gargantua urinates on the Parisians (Robida, 1886).