frabjous

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
20
Words With Friends
24
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈfɹæbd͡ʒəs/

Definition of frabjous

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Fabulous, joyous; great, wonderful.
    ““[…] O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!” He chortled in his joy.”
    “Stalks! Frabjous stalks! Bottled ’em! all four!”
    “[Owl, deluded his candidate was elected:] My dark horse!... Oh, frabjous day!”
    “"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.”
    “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.”

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Etymology

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

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