Green’s Dictionary of Slang

bungy adj.

drunk.

1728		Defoe Street Robberies Considered 30: Bongy, Drunk.
1737		B. Franklin ‘Drinkers Dictionary’ in Pennsylvania Gazette 6 Jan. in AS XII:2 90: They come to be well understood to signify plainly that A MAN IS DRUNK. [...] He’s Bungey.
1756		W. Toldervy Hist. of the Two Orphans II 35: It was customary for that personage to be bungy.
1791		H. Lemoine ‘Education’ in Attic Misc. 116: While in a rattler sit two blowings flash, / Salt tears fast streaming from each bungy eye.
1824		‘Sonnets for the Fancy’ in Egan Boxiana III 622: While in a rattle sit two blowens flash, / Salt tears fast streaming from each bungy eye.
1948		Collier’s Wkly 17 Jan. 6/3: Since colonial days, approximately 400 terms to describe being drunk have been used in this country. Among the many no longer heard are bungey, nimptopsical, cherry-merry and ‘as stiff as a ringbolt.’.