bung up

Verb

bung up (third-person singular simple present bungs up, present participle bunging up, simple past and past participle bunged up)

1. (New Zealand, UK) To close (an opening) with a cork, cork-like object or other improvised obstruction.
   • He used a piece of putty to temporarily bung up the leaking gutter.
2. (New Zealand, UK) To block or obstruct (an opening or passage).
   • The fallen leaves were bunging up the drain.
   • By dose is bunged up with snot!
3. (obsolete, slang) To use up, as by bruising or overexertion; to exhaust or incapacitate for action.
   • He had bunged up his mouth that he should not have spoken these three years.1612, Thomas Shelton (translator), he History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha (originally by Miguel de Cervantes)
   • Bunged up he was, plenty. A scar on his nose, healed up, but showing the marks of where human teeth had bit him in a fight, as neat and clear as a dentist’s signboard.1930, Edna Ferber, Cimarron, page 20