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I am certain that Jacob would agree, given his preference to keep both a black and a white stone on his balanced scales, as opposed to the frumious adversary who just brought imbalance to the force by chucking the white stone into the sea.
LOST: The Answer To Life, The Universe, And Everything James F. McGrath 2010
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For those of us who get lost in uffish thought of slithy pols and frumious government, Carroll is a beacon of better.
Alice in Mail Art Land/Traveling Light with a Pinhole Camera 2009
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Beware the Jabber wok, my son the jaws that bite the claws that catch, beware the Jib Jib bird & shun the frumious (?) bandiest snatch.
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The first is that of Lewis Carroll, who remains at the surface of sense and, like children, makes use of the non-signifying elements of language in order to construct the portmanteau words (snark = shark + snake; frumious = furious + fuming) and nonsensical phrases (“'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe”) that populate his writing.
Gilles Deleuze Smith, Daniel 2008
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Beware the Jujub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch! '
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Without rest or pause -- while those frumious jaws
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Mountain Dew Code Red dr's Hospital Adventure: it's weird being recognized as somewhat of a celebrity frumious
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(Just beware the Jubjub bird and shun the frumious Bandersnatch.)
smeggo commented on the word frumious
Fuming and furious.
October 13, 2008
tiggytig commented on the word frumious
"Fuming and furious," most notably as in the short-tempered Bandersnatch, or, commonly, badgers.
October 23, 2008
SageDave1 commented on the word frumious
Frumious does have a perceived definition; To be extremely angry, uncontrollably irritated.
February 5, 2013