unga bunga

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

IPA^(key): /ˌʌŋɡəˈbʌŋɡə/

Interjection

unga bunga

Alternative form of ooga booga
- 1987, Ramsey Campbell, Cold Print‎^[1], 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^[2], 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."
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:unga bunga.

Derived terms

unga-bunga (adjective)

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^[3]:
  Can you tell my playstyle is unga bunga? lmfao
- 2022 March 25, JonBoi (@Jon_dude1), Twitter‎^[4]:
  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.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:unga bunga.

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^[5]:
  Maybe because they are playing a different style in online rather than unga bungaing it?
- 2022 January 3, Gene Reyva (@genereyva), Twitter‎^[6]:
  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^[7]:
  The temptation to respec my Elden Ring character is high but I will continue to unga bunga through this playthrough.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:unga bunga.