embuggerance
embuggerance noun: any obstacle (natural or artificial) that gets in the way of progress.
Noun
embuggerance (plural embuggerances)
- Any obstacle (natural or artificial) that gets in the way of progress.
- It didn’t matter for them, the course was just a three-week embuggerance and then they’d go home for tea and medals.
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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.1993, Andy McNab, Bravo Two Zero, from, published 2008, →ISBN, pages 27 and 80 - 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!’2003, Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
- It didn’t matter for them, the course was just a three-week embuggerance and then they’d go home for tea and medals.
Forms of embuggerance
| plural | embuggerances |
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Origin of embuggerance
From em- + bugger + -ance.
Questions about embuggerance
- What does embuggerance mean?
- Embuggerance means any obstacle (natural or artificial) that gets in the way of progress.
- What part of speech is embuggerance?
- Embuggerance is a noun.
- What is the plural of embuggerance?
- The plural of embuggerance is embuggerances.
Words near embuggerance in the dictionary
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