Frabjous
[FRAB-jəs]
Part of speech: adjective
Origin: Author Lewis Carroll, 1871
1.
Delightful; joyous.
Examples of Frabjous in a sentence
"The group was excited to attend the frabjous wedding."
"Everyone expects senior prom to be a frabjous occasion."
About Frabjous
This is a word Lewis Carroll coined in his 1871 book, “Through the Looking-Glass.” It is a blend of either “fabulous” and “joyous,” or “fair” and “joyous.”
Did you Know?
Alice in Wonderland author Lewis Carroll made a habit of inventing new words, often portmanteaus, within his stories. Besides “frabjous,” there’s “mimsy,” a blend of “miserable” and “flimsy” that eventually came to mean "prim; careful; feeble" in British English; “galumph,” meaning "to move heavily and clumsily" that blends “gallop” and “triumph”; and “chortle,” which combines “chuckle” and “snort” and means "to exclaim exultingly, with a noisy chuckle."
