Banjax

"Banjax" is also a: user

created by Henry
(idea) by banjax (2.1 mon) (print)   (I like it!) Fri Apr 13 2001 at 8:15:49

'Banjax' is an Irish word, in common usage (it might come from Dublin, but no-one seems all that sure about it). It can be used as a verb meaning to break, destroy, mess up or scupper; or, as 'banjaxed', as an adjective.

Terry Wogan wrote a book in 1980 called 'Banjaxed'; the word also appears in Waiting for Godot (by the bizarre but rather cool Samuel Beckett) - 'Lucky might get going all of a sudden. Then we'd be banjaxed'.

It sounds a fluffy sort of thing really - and it's not.

Great.

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