verb. (American).—To startle: to confuse: cf. BUMBSQUABBLED. BUNGFUNGERED = confounded.
1835–40. HALIBURTON (‘Sam Slick’), The Clockmaker, 91 (ed. 1862). Well, father, I thought he’d a fainted too, he was so struck up all of a heap; he was completely BUNG-FUNGERED.
