pericombobulation
pericombobulation · pericombobulations
Disturbance and confusionDisturbance and confusion.
/ˌpɛɹɪkəmˌbɒbjʊˈleɪʃən/
Meaning
1 senses(countable, humorous, uncountable)Disturbance and confusion.
Origin
peri- + combobulation, "combobulation" originally from the word discombobulation. From a 1peri- + 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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Forms
plural: pericombobulations| Singular | pericombobulation |
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Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable