frasmotic

English

Alternative forms

• phrasmotic

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."

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɹæzˈmɔ.tɪk/

Adjective

frasmotic (comparative more frasmotic, superlative most frasmotic)

1. (humorous) Very apologetic.
   • 1987 September 24, “Ink and Incapability”, in Blackadder The Third, episode 2, spoken by Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson):

     Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation.

   • 2000 February 16, Steven Megson, “Book Review”, in alt.fan.pratchett‎^[1] (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.

   • 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:

     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.

   • 2015 April 22, gwowen, “SAFEcode”, in comp.lang.c‎^[2] (Usenet):

     I also am both anaspeptic and frasmotic for Richard.