# pericombobulation

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˌpɛɹɪkəmˌbɒbjʊˈleɪʃən/

## Definitions
1. Disturbance and confusion.

## Etymology
Blend of peri- + discombobulation. 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."

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/pericombobulation