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bung up en · VERB
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Meanings
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(New-Zealand, UK, of a person) 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.
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(New-Zealand, UK, of debris) To block or obstruct (an opening or passage).
The fallen leaves were bunging up the drain.
By dose is bunged up with snot!
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(obsolete, slang) To use up, as by bruising or overexertion; to exhaust or incapacitate for action.
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: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)
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