Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. UK, military, slang Any obstacle (natural or artificial) that gets in the way of progress
Examples
“embuggerance" to describe his Alzheimer's - and from Fay Weldon who's written over 20 novels:”
“Tony Heugh is this video up anywhere else? region restrictions are an embuggerance.”
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“For a moment there I thought ‘embuggerance’ had something to do with the Apostles Cambridge branch.”
“The fact that they were Americans is besides the point - to Khadr, it wouldn't have mattered who the 'enemy' were - NATO/ISAF, the US, The British Empire and remember we had 3 Anglo-Afghan Wars prior to the current unpleasantness or the Soviet Union - they're all just seen as the same embuggerance to be ejected by all and any means.”
“LONDON (AFP) — British science fiction and fantasy author Terry Pratchett said Thursday he has a rare form of Alzheimer's disease, describing the diagnosis as "an embuggerance".”
“He describes it as `an embuggerance,' which is a great deal more polite than I would be.”
“An embuggerance, then, is an instance of trouble or interference so caused.”
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“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.”
“It didn't matter for them: the course was just a three-week embuggerance, and then they'd go home for tea and medals.”
“Proof is an unnecessary embuggerance for the faithful as faith is strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof.”
Lists
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discoveries
These are lexical items new to me that I've discovered in actual use (i.e. not in dictionaries, lists, or this site).
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Australian
words not found in other
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scrabbleabdul, abdulled, abdulling, abi, abiu, ablactate, absinthial, absinthian, absoluter, acalypha, acanthodian, acaroids and 5128 more...
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rememberers
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Bombardier Bilby Blows The Cellar
Words that sound much better than cellar door.
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Seadog's Words
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My very cool first list of words I like
This will be a very cool list of words that I like and that inspire me to write amazing short stories to blow everyone's mind, and also includes all sorts of things I didn't know exist but make imm...
embuggerance, expedient, flippancy, defenestration, lissomely
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