Meaning of bung up | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To close (an opening) with a cork, cork-like object or other improvised obstruction.
   British, New-Zealand
2. To block or obstruct (an opening or passage).
   British, New-Zealand
3. To use up, as by bruising or overexertion; to exhaust or incapacitate for action.
   obsolete, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“He used a piece of putty to temporarily bung up the leaking gutter.”

“The fallen leaves were bunging up the drain.”

“By dose is bunged up with snot!”

“He had bunged up his mouth that he should not have spoken these three years.”

“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.”

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