Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

frumious

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.11 in modern English

Syllables: fru-mious
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Extremely angry.

Etymology

Blend of fuming + furious, coined by British author and scholar Lewis Carroll in the poem Jabberwocky (1871).

Inflected Forms

more frumious (comparative) most frumious (superlative)

Questions

What does frumious mean?: Extremely angry.
Where does frumious come from?: Blend of fuming + furious, coined by British author and scholar Lewis Carroll in the poem Jabberwocky (1871).

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