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.

1984

I. Doig Eng. Creek 68: I bunged up my hand.