Bungaroosh

Quick meaning: Bungaroosh is a noun meaning A building material composed of miscellaneous materials, such as broken bricks, cobblestones, pebbles, sand, and pieces of wood embedded in hydraulic lime, used primarily in the English seaside resort of Brighton.

Meaning

A building material composed of miscellaneous materials, such as broken bricks, cobblestones, pebbles, sand, and pieces of wood embedded in hydraulic lime, used primarily in the English seaside resort of Brighton.

Example Sentences

Disintegration of bungaroosh: Failure associated with lack of cohesion or excess moisture.

Far to the south, another composite form of wall, using shuttering, was 'bungaroosh', used particularly in Regency Brighton and neighbouring areas on the south coast.

The properties in Charles Street are amongst the first purpose built visitor homes in Brighton. Like the local houses constructed before them and after, they are made in part of bungaroosh (a local Sussex name for flint and lime wall), brick, lime-plaster and timber.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bousillage, brick, blocage, bouzillage, rubble, breeze-block.

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