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percumbent

percumbent adjective: indissolubly associated.

Adjective

percumbent (comparative more percumbent, superlative most percumbent)

  1. (humorous) Indissolubly associated.
    • Shopkeeper: You see, everything that I am saying to you I have learned to speak phonetically. As to the meanings of the individual words or the percumbent rules of syntax, I haven't a clue.1991 April 23, The Kids in the Hall, “Episode 19”, in The Kids in the Hall, season 2, episode 19, sketch 4)

Forms of percumbent

comparativemore percumbent
superlativemost percumbent

Origin of percumbent

A humorous neologism and nonce word coined by Canadian sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall for a 1991 episode of their eponymous Canadian sketch comedy. In principle, Latin per- (“throughout”) + *cumbō (“to lie down”).

Questions about percumbent

What does percumbent mean?
Percumbent means indissolubly associated.
What part of speech is percumbent?
Percumbent is an adjective.

Words near percumbent in the dictionary

  1. percopsiforms
  2. percrocutid
  3. percrocutids
  4. percs
  5. perculate
  6. percumbent
  7. percunctation
  8. percunctations
  9. percurrent
  10. percurrently
  11. percursory

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