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embrollo — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • humbug noun Nonsense, deception, or something meant to trick or mislead people.
  • imbroglio noun A complicated situation; an entanglement.
  • jam noun A sweet spread made by boiling fruit with sugar until it thickens.
  • problem noun A difficult situation or matter that needs to be solved or dealt with.
  • rigmarole noun A long and complicated formal procedure.
  • trouble noun A difficult, worrying, or dangerous situation or problem.

Senses

embrollo is used for these senses in English:

  • humbug (countable, slang) A fraud or sham; (uncountable) hypocrisy.
  • imbroglio A complicated situation; an entanglement.
  • jam (countable) A difficult situation.
  • problem A puzzling circumstance.
  • rigmarole A long and complicated formal procedure.
  • trouble A distressing or dangerous situation.
  • tsuris (US, colloquial, Jewish English) Problems or troubles.

humbug — full definition

  1. noun Nonsense, deception, or something meant to trick or mislead people.
  2. noun A hard, striped mint candy, especially popular in Britain.

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