corked up

corked up (not comparable)

1. Stoppered with a cork.
2. (figurative) Unable to speak; silenced.
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 82:

     He shut up suddenly, corked up by a special item in his list of martyrdoms that squandered him to gloom.

• rocked up