banjaxとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Unknown, perhaps originally Dublin slang.^[1] According to Green’s Dictionary of Slang, may be a euphemism for bollocks.^[2]

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈbæn.d͡ʒæks/, /bænˈd͡ʒæks/
• 韻: -æks

動詞

banjax (三人称単数 現在形 banjaxes, 現在分詞 banjaxing, 過去形および過去分詞形 banjaxed)

1. (UK, originally Ireland, slang) To ruin or destroy.
   • 1922, Darrell Figgis, The House of Success, The Gael Co-operative Publishing Society, Ltd., page 146:

     I hoofed his backside till he went down all of a heap. That banjaxed his little game. You should have heard his hullabulloo.

   • 1928, Eimar O'Duffy, The Spacious Adventures of the Man in the Street, Macmillan, page 370:

     Indeed, it seemed that the army was hopelessly banjaxed.

   • 1970, Edna O'Brien, A Pagan Place, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2001, page 91:

     Emma had suggested that you hide, said your presence might banjax her position.

   • 2006, Craig Ferguson, Between the Bridge and the River, Chronicle Books, page 252:

     Fraser was looking at the flat, wet countryside and thinking about the French policeman who had banjaxed him with the truncheon.

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:banjax.

名詞

banjax (複数形 banjaxes)

1. (chiefly Ireland, informal) A mess or undesirable situation made as a result of incompetence.
   • 1922, Seán O'Casey, Juno and the Paycock:

     I'm tellin' you the scholar, Bentham, made a banjax o' th' Will.

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