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Razengan • yesterday at 4:49 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

"cromulent" sounds like such a disgusting word that isn't.

probably because of its adjacency to "corpulent" lol


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anamexis • yesterday at 4:57 PM

The word "cromulent" was coined by the TV show The Simpsons in a gag.

> Mrs. Krabappel: "Embiggens"? I never heard that word before I moved to Springfield.

> Ms. Hoover: I don't know why. It's a perfectly cromulent word.

But now it has made it into the Merriam-Webster dictionary.