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Blackadder
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extramuralisation
pendigestatory interludicule
interphrastically
contrafibularity
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contrafibularity
synonyms:
~felicitation
???
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Definition:
sarcastic congratulations
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Uses:
Dr. Johnson: "This book, sir, contains every word in our beloved language."
Blackadder: "Every single one, sir?"
Dr. Johnson: "Every single one, sir!"
Blackadder: "Oh! Well in that case sir, I hope you will not object if I also offer the doctor my most enthusiastic
contrafibularities
."
Dr. Johnson: "What!?"
Blackadder: " '
Contrafibularities
', it is a common word, down our way."
Dr. Johnson: (while hastily scribbling in his dictionary) "Damn!"
Blackadder: "Oh, I'm sorry sir. I'm anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctious to have caused you such pericombobulations."
BBC. Blackadder, Season 3,
Ink and Incapability
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