----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Heffernan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Roger Collett" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 5:39 PM
Subject: Re: Robin Hamilton - Pacts and Conjurations - New and Selected Poems
> On 12/31/05, Roger Collett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Rupert, I think:
>>
>> To banjax something means to break, damage or ruin it (Irish derivation)
>>
>> To be banjaxed is to be totally defeated or broken (Irish usage, mainly)
>> Roger
>
> That lines up with how the word is used in my part of Ireland (Cork)
> although it would be understood if you used "banjaxed" to mean "very
> drunk". I'm not sure that's very common, though. To my understanding
> banjaxed implies that the thing that is broken is irreparable and,
> since you'll be sober in the morning, the word doesn't apply.
>
> Bob
>
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