bung up

verb bungs up · bunging up · bunged up

1. New Zealand, UK, of a person To close (an opening) with a cork, cork-like object or other improvised obstruction. The holes in the sky by which the upper waters escaped were made by God when he removed two stars out of the constellation of the Pleiades; and in order to stop this torrent of rain God had afterwards to bung up the two holes with a couple of stars borrowed from the constellation of the Bear.
2. New Zealand, UK, of debris To block or obstruct (an opening or passage). The fallen leaves were bunging up the drain.
3. obsolete, slang To use up, as by bruising or overexertion; to exhaust or incapacitate for action. He had bunged up his mouth that he should not have spoken these three years.