interfrastically

In the very next phrase; in a prompt manner.

Adverb

  1. In the very next phrase; in a prompt manner.
    • Certainly, sir. I shall return interfrastically. - 1987 September 24, “Ink and Incapability”, in Blackadder The Third, episode 2, spoken by Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson):
    • The dojo screen's well-drawn, bright and colourful — a delight to the peepers. And as for the animation on the big chunky characters, interfrastically funkadacious are the words that spring to mind. - 1992 April,...
    • Yours interfrastically, / Jeremy Reimer - 1994 January 5, Jeremy Reimer, “Thought for the Day#3”, in alt.religion.kibology (Usenet):

Origin

Apparently formed from interphrastic + -ally. 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 shall return interfrastically".

Forms

more interfrastically most interfrastically interphrastically

Related

interphrasally