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English
Etymology
Imitative. Reportedly first used in the Looney Tunes short Bushy Hare, in which Bugs Bunny yells "unga, bunga, bunga!" at a stereotypical depiction of an Australian Aborigine. Compare bunga bunga.
Pronunciation
Interjection
unga bunga
- Alternative form of ooga booga
1987, Ramsey Campbell, Cold Print, page 255:And why not, he thought. He glanced about: nobody. Then he began to lope through the deserted streets, arms hanging, fingers almost touching the road. Unga bunga, he thought. One way to prepare myself for the primitives, I suppose.
1991 August, “Hot Off The Shelf”, in ACE, page 111:Unga-bunga! Poor Chuck Rock's spouse has been kidnapped by the fiendish Gary Gritter and is now held prisoner at the end of five massive levels of platform-pouncing, rock-throwing, belly-butting pandemonium.
2008, Victoria Forester, The Girl Who Could Fly, page 121:"I'm sorry, what did you say? Get back his basket? Are you speaking English or is that some primitive grunting language? Unga bunga. Maybe if you could actually communicate like a human being and not a hayseed, I'd return the basket."
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Derived terms
Noun
unga bunga (uncountable)
- (video games, slang, often attributive) A playstyle that relies on brute strength or extreme aggro in combat.
2021 July 12, @ACastMex, Twitter:Can you tell my playstyle is unga bunga? lmfao
2022 March 25, JonBoi (@Jon_dude1), Twitter:I finished Elden Ring’s main story with my unga bunga pure strength double colossal sword build :D
- 2023, Schuld (trans. Mikey N.), Min-Maxing My TRPG Build in Another World: Volume 5, unnumbered page:
- This piece was liable to put the user in a state of disadvantage without proper precautions, but today Miss Celia had abandoned her unga-bunga playstyle.
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Verb
unga bunga (third-person singular simple present unga bungas, present participle unga bungaing, simple past and past participle unga bungaed)
- (video games, slang) To employ this playstyle.
2020 October 24, @GoodFurDay, Twitter:Maybe because they are playing a different style in online rather than unga bungaing it?
2022 January 3, Gene Reyva (@genereyva), Twitter:I played Glaive for all of 1 mission in MHGU. When I learned how awful it was in classic mode, I went back to unga bungaing the monsters with my giant sword of overcompensation.
2022 February 27, Bizarnage (@Bizarnage), Twitter:The temptation to respec my Elden Ring character is high but I will continue to unga bunga through this playthrough.
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