For your Scribbler assignment, please come up with word histories for five of Blackadder's words missing from Johnson's Dictionary. Pick any five of these eight words/phrases:
contrafribblarities
anus-peptic
phrasmotic
compunctious
pericombobulation
interphrastically
pendigestatery interludicule
velocitous extramuralisation
Be as detailed as the examples of word histories that I read in class. Also, have fun with it.
Some more examples of real word histories:
or try looking looking up some books on Etymology, Word Origins or Word Histories in the library. The Connely Library has books by Charles Earle Funk and Wilfred Funk and Michael Quinion among many others.
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