anaspeptic

English

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."

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /æn.əsˈpɛp.tɪk/

Adjective

anaspeptic (comparative more anaspeptic, superlative most anaspeptic)

  1. (humorous) Very distressed.
    • 2020 April 14, Andy McGeady (@andymcgeady), Twitter‎[1]:
      I am frasmotic, not to mention anaspeptic, at the thought of Ireland facing him next week 😐

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