单词 | banjax |
释义 | banjaxv. Anglo-Irish slang. transitive. To batter or destroy (a person or thing); to ruin; to confound, stymie. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > refutation, disproof > refute, disprove [verb (transitive)] > completely to put silence toc1384 to put (a person or thing) to silencea1464 convell1536 silence1592 to reduce (a person or thing) to silence1605 explode1629 to fetch overa1640 out-argue1662 ruin1665 settle1849 scuttle1888 skyrocket1928 banjax1956 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat > defeat completely or do for overthrowc1375 checkmatea1400 to bring or put to (or unto) utterance1430 distrussc1430 crusha1599 panga1600 to fetch off1600 finish1611 settle?1611 feague1668 rout1676 spiflicate1749 bowl1793 to settle a person's hash1795 dish1798 smash1813 to cook (rarely do) one's goose1835 thunder-smite1875 scuppera1918 to put the bee on1918 stonker1919 to wrap up1922 root1944 banjax1956 marmalize1966 1956 S. Beckett Waiting for Godot (rev. ed.) 79 Lucky might get going all of a sudden. Then we'd be banjaxed [1954: ballocksed]. 1959 D. O'Neill Life has no Price ix. 169 I had the right to leave him talk, I suppose, and banjax us altogether? 1968 Observer 29 Dec. 19/1 You completely banjax the whole psychological impact. 1969 G. Lyall Venus with Pistol viii. 48 The man is a twit. I mean, he banjaxed that Zurich trip. 1972 New Yorker 28 Oct. 40/1 Ha-ha, so she ups and banjaxed the old man one night with a broken spade handle. 1976 U. Holden String Horses viii. 102 The dawn suicide the day before had made a lot of work and worry, had banjaxed things for a while. 1979 T. Wogan Banjaxed (1980) 78 I am out to banjax the bookies. Derivatives ˈbanjaxed adj. ruined, stymied. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > refutation, disproof > [adjective] > proved false, refuted > of person: completely banjaxed1939 the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > [adjective] > prevented or checked > completely stuck or at an impasse stalec1470 blank1542 enterprised1560 nonplus1589 bogged1605 nonplussed1606 blanked1611 stymied1862 deadlocked1880 stalemated1903 banjaxed1939 snookered1961 gridlock1983 1939 ‘F. O'Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 240 Here is his black heart sitting there as large as life in the middle of the pulp of his banjaxed corpse. 1974 Nature 22 Nov. 334/1 My sense of enlightenment was somewhat tempered by the banjaxed mood in which I found myself. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1989; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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