You might use the word banjaxed, if a weasel ran in front of your bicycle when you were on your way to the market. And you crashed into a tree when you swerved to miss the little critter. So, now your beautiful bike is banjaxed. That is to say broken, ruined, destroyed.

Etymology:
Origin Of The Word Banjaxed

The origins of banjaxed are uncertain. The Oxford English Dictionary says it was ‘perhaps originally Dublin slang.’ While The Dictionary of Contemporary Slang speculates that it was formed by an association with banged, bashed, and smashed.[1] And then again, maybe both of these are true.

Banjax is first recorded in 1925 as a noun in the play Juno and the Paycock, by Sean O’Casey. The character Jack Boyle is talking about an inheritance he is supposed to get from a first cousin, noting:

I’m tellin’ you the scholar, Bentham, made a banjax o’ the Will; instead o’ sayin’, “th’ rest o’ me property to be divided between me first cousin, Jack Boyle, an’ me second cousin, Mick Finnegan, o’ Santhry,” he writ down only, “me first an’ second cousins,” an’ the world an’ his wife are afther th’ property now.[2]

Banjaxed also shows up in Scottish English.  And sometimes in high-profile places. Like the rebooted Star Trek film from 2009, where Scotty describes the shield emitters as ‘totally banjaxed’.[3]

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