Sitcom insult enters Oxford dictionary

"Omnishambles" has been named the word of the year in Britain after it was coined by the BBC political satire 'The Thick of It'.

Sitcom insult enters Oxford dictionary

"Omnishambles" has been named the word of the year in Britain after it was coined by the BBC political satire 'The Thick of It'.

Dictionary publishers, Oxford University Press, define it as a badly mismanaged situation, made worse by a series of blunders.

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