Anaspeptic

//æn.əsˈpɛp.tɪk// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Very distressed. humorous

    "I am frasmotic, not to mention anaspeptic, at the thought of Ireland facing him next week 😐"

Example

More examples

"I am frasmotic, not to mention anaspeptic, at the thought of Ireland facing him next week 😐"

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."

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