Word for the Week: Frabjous

[TotallyOz]

Here is the word for this week:

frabjous \FRAB-juhs\, adjective:

Wonderful, elegant, superb, or delicious.

He bombarded her with imported candy and American beauties, and cluttered up the spring with a series of whist parties, which butted into the social calendar something frabjous.

-- George Fitch, At good old Siwash

If there's a more frabjous pairing of writer and director than Lewis Carroll and Tim Burton, I can't imagine it.

-- Mike Scott, "'Alice in Wonderland' movie review: Callooh! Callay! Tim Burton creates a frabjous delight," The Times-Picayune, March 2010

Frabjous is one of many words coined by Lewis Caroll in Through the Looking-Glass.

[Guest CharliePS]

"O frabjous day,

Calloo callay!"

Carroll didn't provide translations for the many invented words in "Jabberwocky," so I suppose one can use them to mean whatever one wants. (I often think of Wall Street financiers as slithy toves.)

[TotallyOz]

Lewis Carroll gifted a golden goose,

Permission for rhymers to coin words frabjous,

When the lexicon would not yield a word

That would not make their rhymes sound absurd.