Synonyms

bollix up

[bol-iks]

bol·lix

[bol-iks]
verb (used with object) Informal.
1.
to do (something) badly; bungle (often followed by up): His interference bollixed up the whole deal.
noun
2.
a confused bungle.

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Bollix up is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
Also, bolix, bol·lox.


Origin:
1930–35; variant of ballocks
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bollix up

verb
make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" [syn: botch
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