lunger
/ˈlʌnd͡ʒə/noun
lunger is a noun meaning “A person who lunges” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-U-N-G-E-R and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of lunger is lungers.
What does lunger mean?
noun
- 1
A person who lunges.
- 2
slangA person afflicted with a disease of the lungs, especially one suffering from tuberculosis.
- 3
slangA vehicle whose engine has the specified number of cylinders.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce lunger?
- UK /ˈlʌnd͡ʒə/
As a noun (“A person afflicted with a disease of the lungs, especially…”): /ˈlʌŋə/.
Lunger has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-lunger.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of lunger
- lungers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is lunger?
Lunger appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 155,937th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does lunger come from?
From lunge + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).