Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. UK A situation that is bad or mismanaged in every way.
Etymologies
- omni- + shambles. Coined by the television show The Thick of It in 2009. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The omnishambles at the Ministry of Defence is such that, astonishingly, it may have supplanted the Home Office as the government department least fit-for-purpose.”
“The outwardly crisp style of government it satirised has descended into a very public ‘omnishambles’.”
“Labour have, in the lingo of the The Thick of It, a major omnishambles on their hands.”
“Just as Gordon Brown’s unpopularity cannot be ascribed solely to the economy, so the public’s contempt for the Westminster omnishambles extends beyond expenses.”
“In this afternoon’s Queen Speech debate (quite how our esteemed representatives can spend two days debating seven minutes worth of platitudes is beyond me), the Health Secretary, Andy Burnham, described the Tories’ shambolic health policies as an ‘omnishambles’ - very ‘hip’ phraseology stolen from an Armando Ianucci penned Malcolm Tucker rant.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘omnishambles’.
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Situation Normal
inspired by Mistakes Were Made. Words for things going wrong in a manner particularly violent, stupid, soul-crushing, boggling, grandiose, or any combination of these qualities.
fuckup, snafu, fiasco, abortion, miscarriage, implosion, contretemps, imbroglio, brouhaha, melee, kerfuffle, mayhem and 156 more...
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Hey Hey It's My Monkey!
I don't have a monkey. But if I did, he/she would be named ...
hanuman, shock, 500, rhesus, wrench, spank, puzzle, davy jones, funky, grip, swinger, chunky and 33 more...
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EN - US buzzwords of 2012
As seen on http://www.vocabulary.com/articles/wordroutes/the-year-in-words-2012-edition/
47 percent, apology tour, arithmetic, clown question, doxing, Eastwooding, etch a sketch, fiscal cliff, frackademia, Frankenstorm, Gangnam style, ganjapreneur and 20 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 2465 more... -
Carlos' Words
monstropolous, absquatulate
triffid, calque, pinguid, refulgent, monstropolous, Seanchaí, clinquant, Chryselephantine ..., peavey, milium, swage, Burtillon, Burtil... and 263 more...
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The Shambles
From the American Heritage Dictionary:
"A place or situation referred to as a shambles is usually a mess, but it is no longer always the bloody mess it once was. The history of the wo...rendering, packing plant, meat, hard hat, tallow, greaves, captive bolt pistol, pig scalder, scalding house, boxed beef, oleochemicals, blood meal and 42 more...
Tweets
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lkiser the worthless word for the day is: omnishambles
omni-, all + shambles
Brit. a situation that has been comprehensively
mismanaged, characterized by a string of blunders
and miscalculations; a complete screw-up in all areas
"'Omnishambles' is the word they are using in Downing
Street these days to describe the series of self-
inflicted political disasters that have engulfed the
prime minister, David Cameron, and his coalition
government."
- Independent, Dec. 07 2012
"Today Oxford University Press announces omnishambles
as Oxford Dictionaries UK Word of the Year 2012.
Originally used in the British political comedy
television series The Thick of It, omnishambles has
gained momentum throughout 2012 as a word used to
describe a comprehensively mismanaged situation,
characterized by a shambolic string of blunders."
- OxfordWords blog, 13 Nov. 2012 Dec 18, 2012
bilby A major snafu. Apparently a term popularised by a British tv program. Nov 13, 2012