supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Etymology
First attested (as supercaliflawjalisticexpialadoshus) in a 1931 Daily Orange column, which states that the word “implies all that is grand, great, glorious, splendid, superb, wonderful”. In this spelling, it was made famous by its use in a song of the same title in the movie Mary Poppins (1964), by songwriters and ; they wrote in 1998: "When we were little boys in the mid-1930s, we went to a summer camp in the Adirondack Mountains, where we were introduced to a very long word that had been passed down in many variations through many generations of kids. The word as we first heard it was super-cadja-flawjalistic-espealedojus." Apparently a fanciful formation on (compare ),, and ; various rationalizations of the other elements have been offered, but none supported by any evidence. One by American linguist in his book Crazy English (1989) is super- “above” + cali- “beauty” + fragilistic- “delicate” + expiali- “to atone” + -docious “educable”, the sum of which equals “atoning for extreme and delicate beauty [while being] highly educable”.

Adjective

 * 1)  Fantastic, very wonderful

Usage notes

 * Often cited as an example of a very long word.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * German: supercalifragilisticexpialigetisch, superkalifragilistisch expiallegorisch
 * Italian: supercalifragilistichespiralidoso
 * Spanish: supercalifragilisticoexpialidoso