English
Numberwang
number + wang, from a 2006 That Mitchell and Webb Look comedy sketch about a nonsensical game show in which contestants shout random numbers and the host replies "That's Numberwang!"
Proto-Indo-European *nem- ‘to distribute; to give, take’
Proto-Italic *nomezos
Latin numerus ‘number’
Anglo-Norman noumbre
Middle English number
English number
Today it means
noun A situation involving a bewildering succession of numbers.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Numberwang