Etymologies
- Made famous by its use in a song of the same title in the movie Mary Poppins (1964), by songwriters Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman. Songwriters Gloria Parker and Barney Young brought a unsuccessful lawsuit against Walt Disney Studios, claiming the song infringed on their song "Supercalafajalistickespeealadojus", but failed because "variants of the word were known ... many years prior to 1949". (Wiktionary)
Examples
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“Furthermore, reports suggest that she dared to retaliate to such insults, and allegedly lashed out at the prophet and his faith, in a country that is 97 percent Muslim and where freedom of speech is a phrase often as nonsensical as supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.”
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“October 5, 2009 at 2:02 am moi? supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’.
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Nonce
A nonce word is a word used only "for the nonce"—to meet a need that is not expected to recur. Quark, for example, was formerly a nonce word in English, appearing only in James Joyce's Finnegans Wa...
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Words I love!
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Please contribute lots of panegyrical words—preferably such that are of universal use.
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Whether slang, acronyms, or madeupical, they're too good not to put on some list or other. See the companion list, "Favorite Words That Are Really More Like Phrases," here.
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Tweets
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eloiseyeji supercalifragilisticexpialidocious......there's not even a red line under it!!
plus it would be cool if this word was in a spelling test....^-^ Feb 26, 2013
mysticgypsy Roots of the word have been defined3 as follows: super- "above", cali- "beauty", fragilistic- "delicate", expiali- "to atone", and docious- "educable", with the sum of these parts signifying roughly "Atoning for educability through delicate beauty." This explication of its connotations suits the nature of Mary Poppins, who presents herself as both extremely beautiful and also supremely intelligent and capable of great achievements.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Oct 15, 2008
chained_bear I think that backwards (at least the way Julie Andrews says it) it's dociousaliexpiisticfragicalirupus. Phonetically. Mar 13, 2008
dgstone I love the way "expialidocious" sounds when said aloud, but the rest of the word isn't impressive enough to end up on my list. Mar 13, 2008
bilby "MARY POPPINS:
Of course, you can say it backwards, which is suoicodiliaipxecitsiligarfilacrepus.
MICHAEL:
She may be tricky, but she’s bloody good!" Jan 5, 2008
reesetee Wha...? What's with the hostility? Geez, a person can't even horn in on wise-ass comments anymore.... Oct 8, 2007
chained_bear Well, uselessness, it seems that TWO of us were once on the same wavelength, almost a year ago. Someone ELSE took a while to get on that wavelength, I'd say. *glares at reesetee* Oct 8, 2007
skipvia Quite atrocious... Oct 8, 2007
uselessness And, er, see precocious for an eerily similar comment by me (which is, may I remind you, the oldest of the three in the bunch). We all must be on the same wavelength. Oct 8, 2007
reesetee Ha! See supercalafragalisticexpialladocious for eerily similar wise-ass comment by Yours Truly. ;-) Oct 8, 2007
chained_bear If you say it loud enough, you'll always sound precocious. Feb 1, 2007
reginaterra Or is it "supercalifragilistiKexpialidocious"? That spelling at least yields the correct pronunciation. Jan 4, 2007