Meaning of embuggerance | Babel Free

Definitions

Any obstacle (natural or artificial) that gets in the way of progress.

British, slang

Examples

“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.”

“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!’”

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