anaspeptic

adj

anaspeptic

adj

/æn.əsˈpɛp.tɪk/

Etymology Blend of ana- + dyspeptic. 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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Humorous Very distressed.

  • I am frasmotic, not to mention anaspeptic, at the thought of Ireland facing him next week 😐2020 April 14, Andy McGeady (@andymcgeady), Twitter:
Related terms
contrafibularities, frasmotic, compunctuous, pericombobulation

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