bung up
verb1
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.
2
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!
- 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)
- 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: