"bungy lad" a new term for me, any ideas?

[Tickettyboo]

me too! and its not in my experience either!

Boo (pleased its not just me!)

[Rosinish]

The term for hanging from a rope as is done in Bungy/Bungee jump.

Annie

[Tickettyboo]

Oh , ok, but I thought -perhaps in error - that was a relatively modern term? This girl (the witness) was 10 in 1902, I would have thought her terminology would be questioned if it wasn't in common usage at the time?

Boo

[Rosinish]

The word (various spellings) & not new, comes from Bungee Cord, this is worth a read;

http://www.madehow.com/Volume-2/Bungee-Cord.html

Annie

[Rena]

I'm surmising my father born 1912 was responsible for much of our Yorkshire vocabulary. His parents were from Glasgow and Leith, Scotland.

The rope described above is pronounced bun-gee, but we ate bung-ee. 

I suppose a rope could be termed a bungee rope if it was used to hang up whey/curd in a muslin bag.

It's a puzzle.

[Tickettyboo]

Though I wont discount Annie's suggestion (as for all I know it may be right) I am really struggling to see that a 10 year old, in a formal court in 1902 would have been allowed to use what could well be construed as a disrepectful term about a boy who had hanged himself (no matter what he had done in the time leading up to that).
 This was an official inquest and describing him as a 'bungy boy' - relating to the method of his death just doesn't seem like it would have been allowed? and the full inquest report contains this term being used by the witness twice.
I am quite prepared to accept that this opinion may stem more from my personal perception of what is acceptable than any knowledge, but I really can't see it way back then.

Boo

[Rena]

Do we know where the "bungey lad" was born?   Could it be a mis-spelling for the place he originated from?

There's a place in Suffolk with the name "Bungay", what if the lad was born there and his family sailed north to find work?

[Mike in Cumbria]

From the Dictionary of  Occupational Terms (http://doot.spub.co.uk)

bungey lad
a milk boy q.v. who helps bungey man (776) q.v. in delivering milk from milk float.

Surely this definition renders all other speculation pointless?  It's quite clear what a bungey lad was.

[Tickettyboo]

Do we know where the "bungey lad" was born?   Could it be a mis-spelling for the place he originated from?

There's a place in Suffolk with the name "Bungay", what if the lad was born there and his family sailed north to find work?

The full inquest report (its lengthy and I am not sure about the copyright stuff so haven't posted it, sorry)had statements from his father, the boy was from Jarrow, so still within Co Durham.

Boo