frumious

[froo-mee-uhs]

adjective

1. very angry.

Word History and Origins

Origin of frumious¹

Coined by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking Glass (1871), a blend, Carroll claimed, of fuming and furious

Example Sentences

Tickner, who was born in New York on Sept. 8, 1946, was a former rocker with the San Francisco band Frumious Bandersnatch with bassist Ross Valory.

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Frumious Bandersnatch — sorry, we mean Benedict Cumberbatch — lends his voice to a new episode of “The Simpsons.”

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Coming between its completed fourth and recently announced fifth seasons and entitled "Bandersnatch," like the "frumious" creature Lewis Carroll advises shunning in "Jabberwocky," it is a feature-length interactive episode, an adventure game about an adventure game.

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They graph, to take one example, the astounding career path of “chortle,” coined by Lewis Carroll in “Jabberwocky,” which has left its siblings “galumphing” and “frumious” in the dust.

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But as Lewis Carroll said of the frumious bandersnatch: shun the Champs Elysees.

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When To Use

What does frumious mean?

Frumious means very angry, as in My mom was frumious that I skipped school today.Frumious was coined by author Lewis Carroll for his children’s novel Through the Looking-Glass. It appears in the poem “Jabberwocky,” which is part of the novel.In the poem, the narrator warns his son to “shun / The frumious Bandersnatch,” a violent and enraged creature.Frumious is mostly used as Carroll intended, often in a playful rather than serious way.Example: I am absolutely frumious that they left that movie on a cliffhanger.