banjax

noun /ˈbæn.d͡ʒæks/

1. A mess or undesirable situation made as a result of incompetence.

   informal

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

Where it comes from

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

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry banjax (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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