Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

banjaxed

/ˈbæn.dʒækst/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ban-jaxed
IPA: /ˈbæn.dʒækst/

25

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

simple past and past participle of banjax

adj

Broken, ruined, shattered; confounded.

British usage; Slang

adj

Tired, sleepy, cream crackered.

British usage; Slang

Example Sentences

"Here is his black heart sitting there as large as life in the middle of the pulp of his banjaxed corpse."
"Then it got banjaxed, at a supper party to which he brought me."
"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."
"Part of the strategy is to dramatically increase the number of electric cars but people in rural areas are proving hesitant because of cost and lack of charging points. “If you were in the countryside you’d be banjaxed. You can’t plug it into a ditch, you can’t plug it into a cow,” said Derek Desmond, 50, a handyman from Tipperary."
"I'm completely banjaxed!"

Etymology

From banjax + -ed.

Usage

British usage
Slang

Inflected Forms

more banjaxed (comparative) most banjaxed (superlative)

Questions

How do you pronounce banjaxed?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈbæn.dʒækst/.
What does banjaxed mean?: simple past and past participle of banjax
Where does banjaxed come from?: From banjax + -ed.

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