bung up

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

  1. (Britain, New Zealand) 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. (obsolete, slang) To use up, as by bruising or overexertion; to exhaust or incapacitate for action.
    • 1612, Thomas Shelton (translator), he History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha (originally by Miguel de Cervantes)
      He had bunged up his mouth that he should not have spoken these three years.
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