bung up
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.58 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To close (an opening) with a cork, cork-like object or other improvised obstruction.
New Zealand usage; British usage
verb
To use up, as by bruising or overexertion; to exhaust or incapacitate for action.
Obsolete; Slang
Example Sentences
- "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."
Usage
- New Zealand usage
- British usage
- Obsolete
- Slang