[f. BUNG sb.1] trans.
1. To stop with a bung; also with down, up.
1616. Surfl. & Markh., Countr. Farm, 431. You must bung it vp very close.
1741. Hanbury, in Phil. Trans., XLI. 674. Unctuous Clay, such as Brewers use to bong their Vessels.
1835. Marryat, Pacha, ii. I had bunged up the cask.
1836. Penny Cycl., V. 405/1. The beer [should be] well flattened before bunging down in the casks.
2. transf. and fig. To stop, close; to shut up. Now chiefly in pugilistic slang, to bung up the eyes.
1589. Pappe w. Hatchet, A iiij. These mutiners … must haue their mouthes bungd with iests.
1622. Mabbe, trans. Aleman’s Guzman d’Alf., II. 294. My mouth was bung’d vp, I durst not speake.
1655. Gurnall, Chr. in Arm., xii. § 3 (1669), 356/2. Resolve to bung up thine ear from all by-discourse.
1755. Connoisseur, No. 53 (1774), II. 139. In the vulgar idiom Bunging your eye.
1829. Marryat, F. Mildmay, v. With his eyes bunged up and his face … swollen.
3. To shut up, enclose, as in a bunged cask.
1592. Nashe, P. Penilesse (ed. 2), 23 a. Bung vp all the welth of the Land in their snap-haunce bags.
1775. Garrick, in G. Colman, Posth. Lett. (1820), 308. Henderson play’d Regulus—& you would have wish’d him bung’d up with his nails, before ye End of ye 3d act.
1794. J. Wolcott (P. Pindar), Celebration, Wks. III. 419. Chain’d be the tempests, and well bung’d the rain.
