banjaxed
English
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Ireland" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈbæn.dʒækst/
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Verb
banjaxed
- simple past and past participle of banjax
Adjective
banjaxed (comparative more banjaxed, superlative most banjaxed)
- (British and Ireland, slang) Broken, ruined, shattered; confounded.
- 1939, Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds:
- Here is his black heart sitting there as large as life in the middle of the pulp of his banjaxed corpse.
- 2001, Edna O'Brien, Night:
- Then it got banjaxed, at a supper party to which he brought me.
- 2011, Will Self, "The frowniest spot on Earth", London Review of Books, XXXIII.9:
- Lindsay again waxes approving over Ballard’s hymn to the banjaxed landscape of the Heathrow environs, with its choked arterial roads, light industrial units and warehousing entrepots.
- (British and Ireland, slang) Tired, sleepy, cream crackered.
- I'm completely banjaxed!
Synonyms
- (broken): See also Thesaurus:broken
- (tired): See also Thesaurus:fatigued