bung your eye

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(verb) - Drink a dram; strictly speaking, to drink till one's eye is bunged up, or closed. Boys at school said, "I'll bung your eye," meaning to strike one in the eye, the consequence of which was generally a bunged eye, that is, so swollen as to be closed up. It is derived, no doubt, from bung, which came from a Welsh word that means a stopple stopper.

--Alfred Elwyn's Glossary of Supposed Americanisms, 1859

January 16, 2018