frabjous

[ frab-juhs ]

adjective

, Informal.

1. wonderful, elegant, superb, or delicious.

Word History and Origins

Origin of frabjous¹

1872; coined by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass; perhaps meant to suggest fabulous or joyous

Example Sentences

Lewis Carroll of the Bells: “Hark how the bells go dongleding And with a swilvy twankling say, ‘Let all your cares go flarrowing This frabjous Christmas Day!’

From Washington Post

While we long for that frabjous day when we can put Covid-19 behind us and once again grip the communal pen at the coffee shop counter, Wright’s novel is here as a real if solemn entertainment, a stay against boredom and a kind of offered prayer for the best in us to rise to the surface.

From New York Times

For most politicians, this would be a frabjous day of well-nigh full employment and fatter paychecks.

From The Guardian

For most politicians, this would be a frabjous day.

From The Guardian

His championship word in this year’s regional bee was “frabjous,” a term for joy coined by Lewis Carroll in the Jabberwocky poem from “Through the Looking Glass.”

From Washington Times