banjaxv.
/ˈbandʒaks/, U.S. /ˈbænˌdʒæks/, Irish English /ˈbændʒæks/ Anglo-Irish slang.
transitive. To batter or destroy (a person or thing); to ruin; to confound, stymie.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > refutation, disproof > refute, disprove [verb (transitive)] > completely
to put silence toc1384
to put (a person or thing) to silencea1464
convell1536
silence1592
to reduce (a person or thing) to silence1605
explode1629
to fetch overa1640
out-argue1662
ruin1665
settle1849
scuttle1888
skyrocket1928
banjax1956
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat > defeat completely or do for
overthrowc1375
checkmatea1400
to bring or put to (or unto) utterance1430
distrussc1430
crusha1599
panga1600
to fetch off1600
finish1611
settle?1611
feague1668
rout1676
spiflicate1749
bowl1793
to settle a person's hash1795
dish1798
smash1813
to cook (rarely do) one's goose1835
thunder-smite1875
scuppera1918
to put the bee on1918
stonker1919
to wrap up1922
root1944
banjax1956
marmalize1966
1956 S. Beckett Waiting for Godot (rev. ed.) 79 Lucky might get going all of a sudden. Then we'd be banjaxed [1954: ballocksed].
1959 D. O'Neill Life has no Price ix. 169 I had the right to leave him talk, I suppose, and banjax us altogether?
1968 Observer 29 Dec. 19/1 You completely banjax the whole psychological impact.
1969 G. Lyall Venus with Pistol viii. 48 The man is a twit. I mean, he banjaxed that Zurich trip.
1972 New Yorker 28 Oct. 40/1 Ha-ha, so she ups and banjaxed the old man one night with a broken spade handle.
1976 U. Holden String Horses viii. 102 The dawn suicide the day before had made a lot of work and worry, had banjaxed things for a while.
1979 T. Wogan Banjaxed (1980) 78 I am out to banjax the bookies.
Derivatives
ˈbanjaxed adj. ruined, stymied.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > refutation, disproof > [adjective] > proved false, refuted > of person: completely
banjaxed1939
the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > [adjective] > prevented or checked > completely stuck or at an impasse
stalec1470
blank1542
enterprised1560
nonplus1589
bogged1605
nonplussed1606
blanked1611
stymied1862
deadlocked1880
stalemated1903
banjaxed1939
snookered1961
gridlock1983
1939 ‘F. O'Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 240 Here is his black heart sitting there as large as life in the middle of the pulp of his banjaxed corpse.
1974 Nature 22 Nov. 334/1 My sense of enlightenment was somewhat tempered by the banjaxed mood in which I found myself.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1989; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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