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9 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun an intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation
noun a very embarrassing misunderstanding
originBorrowed from Italian imbroglio (“tangle, entanglement, muddle”) (im-, alternative form of in- (prefix forming verbs denoting derivation) + broglio (“confusion; intrigue, fraud, rigging, stuffing”); see also imbrogliare (“to tangle”)), cognate with and probably from an earlier form of French embrouiller (“to embroil, muddle”) (em- (“em-”), a form of en- (“en-”, prefix meaning ‘caused’) +…
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- moblog 11
- obligor 10
- gombo 10
- bloom 9
- bromo 9
- broom 9
- limbi 9
- limbo 9
- borgo 8
- globi 8
- gloom 8
- groom 8