English Explanatory Dictionary

pericombobulation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Disturbance and confusion.

Pronunciation

/ˌpɛɹɪkəmˌbɒbjʊˈleɪʃən/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pericombobulation.wav LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-pericombobulation.wav

Word forms

pericombobulation pericombobulations

Etymology

peri- + combobulation, "combobulation" originally from the word discombobulation. From a 1987 episode of the British television comedy Blackadder, in which Dr. Samuel Johnson boasts about his newly completed dictionary containing every word in the English language. Blackadder subsequently uses a number of newly-invented words to perplex him: "I'm anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation."

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