Meanings
comparative more percumbent · superlative most percumbent
- humorousIndissolubly associated.
Shopkeeper: You see, everything that I am saying to you I have learned to speak phonetically. As to the meanings of the individual words or the percumbent rules of syntax, I haven't a clue.
1991 April 23, The Kids in the Hall, “Episode 19”, in The Kids in the Hall, season 2, episode 19, sketch 4)
Origin
- Latinper-“throughout”
- Englishpercumbent
A humorous neologism and nonce word coined by Canadian sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall for a 1991 episode of their eponymous Canadian sketch comedy. In principle, Latin per- (“throughout”) + *cumbō (“to lie down”).
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