frumious
adjective
frumious is an adjective meaning “Extremely angry” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-U-M-I-O-U-S, and it appears about once in every 78 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does frumious mean?
adjective
- 1
Extremely angry.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of frumious
- more frumious comparative
- most frumious superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is frumious?
Frumious appears about once in every 78 million words in written English, the 279,513th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does frumious come from?
Blend of fuming + furious, coined by British author and scholar Lewis Carroll in the poem Jabberwocky (1871).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).