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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
Embuggerance? What a lovely word. 
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Originally Posted by lumberjim
Sounds like a synonym for fuckery.
I, too, am pleased
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I've used it from time to time, to describe occasions when the fates seemed to have conspired to put an obstacle in my way or cause other burdens to be visited upon me.
A bit of digging around suggests that it is/was military slang dating from about 1950. It gained greater prominence back in 2007 when the author Terry Pratchett was diagnosed as having Alzheimer's Disease.
The English language is remarkably flexible and I always think that it is a bit like Linux, available to all to adopt and adapt to their own requirements.
World Wide Words: Embuggerance.
Terry Pratchett