English

hotbunk

From hot + bunk.

A compound of hot + bunk

Proto-Indo-European *keHy- ‘to heat; to become hot’

Proto-Germanic *haitaz ‘hot’

Proto-West Germanic *hait

Old English hāt ‘hot’

Middle English hot

English hot

en-GB-SCT bunker ‘seat, bench’

English bunk

Today it means

verb To share bunks on a submarine, one crewmember sleeping while another is out on duty.

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