pericombobulation
/ˌpɛɹɪkəmˌbɒbjʊˈleɪʃən/
pericombobulation noun: disturbance and confusion.
Noun
pericombobulation (countable and uncountable, plural pericombobulations)
- Disturbance and confusion.
- Because we have cultured, Euro accents and enunciate properly, we try and slip made up words into our meetings and watch the USers eat them up because like the saying about the bigger the lie, the more people believe it, the more syllables a word has the more readily they will accept it.
Example...1997, har...@hotmail.com, “Why People World-Wide Hate Americans.”, in aus.flame (Usenet) - 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.2000, Steven Megson, “[I] Book Review”, in alt.fan.pratchett (Usenet)
- Because we have cultured, Euro accents and enunciate properly, we try and slip made up words into our meetings and watch the USers eat them up because like the saying about the bigger the lie, the more people believe it, the more syllables a word has the more readily they will accept it.
Forms of pericombobulation
| plural | pericombobulations |
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Origin of pericombobulation
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."
Words that rhyme with pericombobulation
- station
- collation
- accommodation
- presentation
- derivation
- information
- modulation
- translation
- application
- fixation
- generation
- orientation
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- citation
- combination
- communication
- conjugation
- constellation
- determination
- elevation
- operation
- relation
- reservation
- alternation
- condensation
- conversation
- deviation
- excavation
- foliation
- formation
- foundation
- incarnation
- interpretation
- representation
- retardation
- speculation
- termination
- abbreviation
- adaptation
- articulation
- bifurcation
- concentration
- congregation
- declination
- degradation
- expectation
- extenuation
- gradation
- observation
- population
- preparation
- reconciliation
- rotation
- separation
- situation
- vexation
- vindication
- accumulation
- administration
- aggregation
- appropriation
Questions about pericombobulation
- What does pericombobulation mean?
- Pericombobulation means disturbance and confusion.
- What part of speech is pericombobulation?
- Pericombobulation is a noun.
- How do you pronounce pericombobulation?
- Pericombobulation is pronounced /ˌpɛɹɪkəmˌbɒbjʊˈleɪʃən/.
- What is the plural of pericombobulation?
- The plural of pericombobulation is pericombobulations.
Words near pericombobulation in the dictionary
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