pericombobulation
noun/ˌpɛɹɪkəmˌbɒbjʊˈleɪʃən/
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."
- derived from language
Definitions
Disturbance and confusion.
- Oh come now, I for one am quite phrasmotic for the pericombobulation Paul has suffered, and can only wish that in future he will have the sense to complete his assignments more interphrastically.
- I hope this is not causing the poster any pericombobulations.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for pericombobulation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA