Dictionary entry

Bung (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Bung, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Bunged (�); p. pr. & vb. n.Bunging (�).] To stop, as the orifice in the bilge of a cask, with a bung; to close; — with up.

To bung up, to use up, as by bruising or over exertion; to exhaust or incapacitate for action.

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

Shelton (Trans. Don Quixote).