Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Bunged"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Bung \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. [Low]

He had bunged up his mouth that he should not have
spoken these three years. --Shelton
(Trans. Don
Quixote).


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