tied up

Fig. busy. How long will you be tied up? I will be tied up in a meeting for an hour.

mod. busy. I was tied up and couldn’t get to the phone.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Vince	VINTS (English), VEEN-tse (Hungarian)	English, Hungarian
CĂTĂLina	-	Romanian
Daw	-	Medieval English
NoÊMia	-	Portuguese
Underwood	['ʌndəwud]
Khasan	-	Chechen, Ossetian, Circassian, Ingush, Tatar, Bashkir