Etymograph

English

anaspeptic

Blend of ana- + dyspeptic.

A blend of ana- + dyspeptic

Proto-Hellenic *aná ‘up, upon’

Ancient Greek ἀνά ‘on, up, above, throughout’

English ana-

Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- ‘to crack, crush (foodstuff), pulverize (grain)’

Proto-Indo-European *pékʷ-ye-

Ancient Greek πέσσω ‘to digest’

Ancient Greek δύσπεπτος ‘difficult to digest’

English dyspeptic

The story

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."

Today it means

adj Very distressed.

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