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frasmotic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /fɹæzˈmɔ.tɪk/

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."

Meanings

1. (humorous) Very apologetic.
   • I also am both anaspeptic and frasmotic for Richard. 2015 April 22, gwowen, “SAFEcode”, in comp.lang.c (Usenet):
   • Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation. 1987 September 24, “Ink and Incapability”, in Blackadder The Third, episode 2, spoken by Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson):
   • His accidental disportments had left him with crude manifestations of his previous wayward indignities but his frasmotic emollients were nevertheless forthcoming and I purchased for him, in serried ranks, a great multitude of aleous beverages of which was comprised, in the most part, of a salacious inoculent called Colonic BeDevilment. 2006, Nick Harding, How to Start Your Own Secret Society: Learn How to Really Influence People in Business and Politics, Harpenden, Hertfordshire: Oldcastle Books, →ISBN, page 50:
   • 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 February 16, Steven Megson, “Book Review”, in alt.fan.pratchett (Usenet):

Forms

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