Embuggerance

Quick meaning: Embuggerance is a noun meaning (British, military, slang) Any obstacle (natural or artificial) that gets in the way of progress.

Meaning

(British, military, slang) Any obstacle (natural or artificial) that gets in the way of progress.

Example Sentences

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!’

It didn’t matter for them, the course was just a three-week embuggerance and then they’d go home for tea and medals. … 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.

Word Forms

• embuggerances

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include botheration, obstacle, impediment, botherance, buggery, incommode.

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