Mary Poppins

[child of the night 271]

Here is a question that has puzzled me since i had last watched the movie:

 

does the word supercalafragalisticexpialadoshus have an actually meaning, and if so what is it?

[Batbrony 16,087]

From Wikipedia's article on the song, subsection "Origin and Meaning":

 

According to Richard M. Sherman, co-writer of the song with his brother, Robert, the word was created by them in two weeks, mostly out of double-talk.^[2]

The roots of the word have been defined^[3] 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."

According to the film, it is defined as "something to say when you have nothing to say".

 

Here's a link to the full article if you'd like to know more.  Hope this helps! 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Edited October 31, 2013 by Batbrony

[Scootalove 10,692]

I guess there is a definition for that weird word, but a lot of people know the meaning of the weird but me. So yeah, Batbrony found the definition for it.