percumbent
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
A humorous neologism and nonce word coined by Candian sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall for a 1991 episode of their eponymous Canadian sketch comedy.
In principle, Latin per (“throughout”) + cumbĕre (“to lie down”).
Adjective[edit]
percumbent (comparative more percumbent, superlative most percumbent)
- (humorous) Indissolubly associated.
- 1991 April 23, The Kids in the Hall, “Episode 19”, in The Kids in the Hall, season 2, episode 19, sketch 4):
- 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.