Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to stop up.

1914		‘Ian Hay’ Lighter Side of School Life 73: He bungs up the hole in the holidays — to keep the bugs from getting in.
1958		Willans & Searle Complete Molesworth (1985) 230: Some boy [...] bunged up the drane with a pair of socks.
1960		B. Kops Dream of Peter Mann Act II: Bung up his gullet, boys, he’s splitting my ear drum.
1983		(con. 1950s) D. Nobbs Second From Last in the Sack Race 203: I’ve got this dreadful cold. I’m right bunged up.

2. to close someone’s eye with a punch or for the eye to close after a punch; also fig. (see cite 1858).

1794		‘Miss Margery Muggins’ in Agreeable Songster 2: Miss Muggins drank oft’ner than she was dry / She’d been mugging herself so she bung’d up my eye.
1804		Sporting Mag. Mar. XXIII 352/1: But t’other has bung’d up his eye.
1810		‘Jonny Raw and Polly Clark’ in Batchelar’s Jovial Fellows Collection of Songs 4: At length she vow’d she’d serve him out, / Bung up his eyes and crack his snout.
1825		‘The Nightingale-Club’ in Universal Songster I 2: Double-lungs gave him a bellygofuster, Snuffle broke his nose, Max bunged up both his eyes.
1836		T. Haliburton Clockmaker I 159: I bunged up both eyes for him and put in the dead lights in two tu’s.
1840		T. Haliburton Clockmaker III 49: Cuss him, bung up both he eye, and put in de dead lite.
1845		Bell’s Life in Sydney 6 Sept. 4/2: But quickly on his pins again he meditates a teaser / Bungs up the eye of Bungaree and clareted his sneezer.
1858		Armidale Exp. (NSW) 11 Sept. 2/4: [T]he assessment liabilities, under which they seem to grumble or growl at; to use the slang of the ring, they mean to say it will ‘bung up their eye’.
1859		‘George Eliot’ Adam Bede (1873) 141: You must try what you can do by bunging his eyes up.
1860		Hotten Dict. of Modern Sl. etc.
1873		Sl. Dict.
1885		Bulletin (Sydney) 4 July 17/4: The Little Boy at Manly keeps dark, but there is a smouldering fire in his eye – the sound one. The other, our readers will regret to hear, was bunged up lately in an encounter with a small street Arab from Woolloomooloo.
1886		Canterbury Jrnl 18 Sept. 5/4: The defendant [...] said that they would bung the other eye up.
1896		A. Morrison Child of the Jago (1982) 105: Father’s ’it ’im on the jore ag’in — ’is eye’s a-bungin’ up.
1895		Harrington & LeBrunn [perf. Marie Lloyd] He knows a Good Thing When He Sees It 🎵 And he’ll bung up his eye when he sees it.
1900		Marvel 21 Dec. 15: Some hartistic-minded bloke bunged er left optik up.
1916		N. Douglas London Street Games 37: Ef yer want an eye bunged up or a punch on the snaht —.
1941		Western Morn. News 30 Jan. 6/4: You knocked him in the face, saying you would bung up his — eye.

3. to impregnate.

1896

Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 107: Enger: To get with child; ‘to bung up’.

4. to spoil.

1930		(con. 1870s) S. Henry Conquering Our Great Amer. Plains 149: I swear! Look at that! No bungin’ up of my daguerre’type, you bet!
1973		S. Ace Stand On It (1979) 59: Any place else, and the idea is to not bung up your car. Not Darlington.

5. to hurt, to injure.

1934		J. O’Hara ‘All the Girls He Wanted’ in Haper’s Bazaar Oct. 175: They had fractured his skull, broken several ribs, broken both legs, bunged him up so that he died before the arrival of the [...] ambulance.
1984		I. Doig Eng. Creek 68: I bunged up my hand.