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They seem like perfectly cromulent words.

There’s a German word, schnabulieren, which, though it has a totally different meaning, occupies the same niche as “to dis’ someone.” If you had to guess when they were from, you’d think the eighties, but it was actually the 15th century. “Schnabul-” comes from “Schnabel,” meaning “beak,” though in this case it’s more like “duckbill”, and basically “izate,” as a suffix. It means to snack, but really it’s more to snarf something. It was invented as a joke, to mix Latin and Germanic roots was considered funny at the time.

Which is funny as the word combobulate is a back formation from Discombobulate.

back-formation:

A term formed by removing an apparent or real prefix or suffix from an older term; for example, the noun pea arose because the final /z/ sound in pease sounded like a plural suffix. Similarly, the verb edit is a back-formation from the earlier noun editor.

There's an airport in a US city, which has a "RECOMBOBULATION AREA" instead of an "ARRIVALS HALL".

Which, given that the "welcome to..." sign that passengers first see on entering the terminal building names a totally different city in a totally different state to the one the airport is actually in, is probably very apt.

I knew exactly what this was going to be, and still watched it all the way

Discombobulate