The Collaborative International Dictionary
To bung up
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).