anaspeptic
English
Etymology
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."
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /æn.əs.ˈpɛp.tɪk/
Adjective
- (humorous) Very distressed.
- 2020 April 14, Andy McGeady (@andymcgeady), Twitter:
- I am frasmotic, not to mention anaspeptic, at the thought of Ireland facing him next week 😐
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See also
- contrafibularities
- frasmotic
- compunctuous
- pericombobulation