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frabjous en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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• /ˈfɹæbd͡ʒəs/

Etymology

Originally a nonce word in Lewis Carroll's poem “Jabberwocky” (see the quotation); probably a blend of fair + fabulous + joyous.

Meanings

1. Fabulous, joyous; great, wonderful.
   • It's the sugar rush that quickens the pulse. It's the headlong chocolate-dopamine surge that excites. It's the frabjous joy of tearing into a well-wrapped bar. It's love, love, love. 2017 January 31, Jim Myers, “Nashville's Best Candies for Valentine's Day”, in Tennesseean:
   • “[…] O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!” He chortled in his joy. 1871 December 27 (indicated as 1872), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “[Looking-Glass House.] Jabberwocky.”, in Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 24:
   • Beginning in the final months leading up to the bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, and ending in 1953, “Barefoot Gen” takes us inside war from the civilians’ view with none of the propaganda and all of the flawed and frabjous potential of humanity. 2016 January 23, Kris Kosaka, “Barefoot Gen”, in The Japan Times:
   • O frabjous day! We are all bored out of our minds with Brexit when a demented looking gnome is pulled out of the Ecuadorian embassy by the secret police of the deep state. Or “the met” as normal people call them. 2019 April 12, Suzanne Moore, “Wikileaks^([sic]) was the future once. Then it became Julian Assange”, in New Statesman, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2021:
   • [Owl, deluded his candidate was elected:] My dark horse!... Oh, frabjous day! 1960 November 15, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 198:
   • Stalks! Frabjous stalks! Bottled ’em! all four! 1898 December, Rudyard Kipling, “Stalky”, in The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women, volume IX, London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited […], →OCLC, page 36, column 1:
   • "Tomorrow there'll be so much to do," as the Dixie Chicks remind us, "so tonight I'll drift in a dream with you." I want her life to be frabjous, not weighed down with mimsy. 2012 March 15, “To Be a Fully Developed Person (and Leader), You Need to Dream”, in Minneapolis Star Tribune:

Forms

Deriveds

frabjously

Translations (4)

fr frabieux (fabulous, joyous) · vi tuyệt vui (fabulous, joyous) · cy ffrabiach (fabulous, joyous) · pl elegancki (fabulous, joyous)