Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

embuggerance

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: em-bug-ger-ance
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any obstacle (natural or artificial) that gets in the way of progress.

British usage; Slang

Example Sentences

"It didn’t matter for them, the course was just a three-week embuggerance and then they’d go home for tea and medals. … We were sleeping with most of our kit on anyway, but it was a major embuggerance to have to pull on your boots, flak jacket and helmet and leg it down to the slit trenches."
"Jackrum stared at him blankly for a moment, and then said: ‘Well, now … it looks like what we have here is an embuggerance which, my lads of the Cheesemongers, is defined as an obstruction in the way of progress. I propose to deal with it in this wise!’"

Etymology

From em- + bugger + -ance.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: em
Suffix: bugger

Usage

British usage
Slang

Inflected Forms

embuggerances (plural)

Questions

What does embuggerance mean?: Any obstacle (natural or artificial) that gets in the way of progress.
Where does embuggerance come from?: From em- + bugger + -ance.

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