"frasmotic" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /fɹæzˈmɔ.tɪk/ Forms: more frasmotic [comparative], most frasmotic [superlative]
Etymology: 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." Head templates: {{en-adj}} frasmotic (comparative more frasmotic, superlative most frasmotic)
  1. (humorous) Very apologetic. Wikipedia link: Blackadder Tags: humorous Synonyms: phrasmotic
    Sense id: en-frasmotic-en-adj-rNsojsc6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1987 September 24, “Ink and Incapability”, in Blackadder The Third, episode 2, spoken by Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson):",
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          "ref": "2000 February 16, Steven Megson, “Book Review”, in alt.fan.pratchett (Usenet):",
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          "text": "His accidental disportments had left him with crude manifestations of his previous wayward indignities but his frasmotic emollients were nevertheless forthcoming and I purchased for him, in serried ranks, a great multitude of aleous beverages of which was comprised, in the most part, of a salacious inoculent called Colonic BeDevilment.",
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