Bommelthing

Bommelthing
n. 1. An obstacle, roadblock, or a barricade, a thing that can’t be undone without calling in ‘reinforcements’, or ‘brute force’. 2. An explosive situation. 3. A carefully planned trick or question with the goal to upset the people, class, friends or opponents
ex – “The History teacher set us up a bommelthing with his question about quantum mechanics”

Origin: Comes from the Dutch word ‘bommelding’ (bomb threat), which, if pronounced differently, can also be a non-existing word (compare “bom melding” vs. “bommel ding”).

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