sufferfest

noun — 2 senses

noun

Etymology From suffer + -fest.

A workout or race in the arena of endurance sports that involves prolonged suffering on the part of all who participate.

Broadly An activity in which all participants ache, agonize, ail, endure.

And if that happened, they were in for a year-long sufferfest.2012, Owen West, The Snake Eaters: An Unlikely Band of Brothers and the Battle for the Soul of Iraq:

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