October 7, 201015 yr 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.
October 7, 201015 yr "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.)
October 8, 201015 yr Author 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.
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