Pronounced: WID-uhr-shins, adv
Notes: I ran into this word years ago in a book by Dorothy Sayers; I find this a fun word, if not much used these days.
Yesterday’s word
The word frumious means “very angry”
First usage
This word came into being in the mid-1800s
Background / Comments
The word was coined by Lewis Carroll in the poem “Jabberwocky” in the book Through the Looking-Glass. It is a combination of “fuming” and “furious”.
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