# O frabjous word! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 10, 2007, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-frabjous-word/422201 "2007-10-10T13:25:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-frabjous-word/422201/1 "2007-10-10T13:25:16Z")
Being a hoopy froodette, I was meditating on made-up adjectives today. Can anyone think of any? I’d prefer them to be cromulent, if possible. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-frabjous-word/422201/2 "2007-10-10T13:35:16Z")
Sorry, I don’t grok the question. —Obviously. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-frabjous-word/422201/3 "2007-10-10T13:43:24Z")
It’s good to see you’re still apolaustic about wordplay, so have at it. As long as you don’t go nothosonomistic on us or start osculating all over the board, because then this could turn into a donnybrookish discussion. (Those are all real words, some of them forced into adjectival form.) ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-frabjous-word/422201/4 "2007-10-10T13:46:56Z")
This thread is AWESOME when entered into a text reading program. ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-frabjous-word/422201/5 "2007-10-10T14:05:03Z")
**twickster** , you want to know what’s weird? I actually thought “cromulent” was a genuine word because I’d seen it so much on this message board. I assumed it defined something really hugely offensive or was some kind of negative superlative. :eek: I’m not kidding; I never thought to look it up. I look forward to checking back on this thread and seeing what kinds of bizarre words everybody comes up with. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-frabjous-word/422201/6 "2007-10-10T15:09:52Z")
Me too. Although my own contribution to date has been craptacular. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-frabjous-word/422201/7 "2007-10-10T15:11:35Z")
What a truly magnaficious idea for a thread! I’m beyond flubberized! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-frabjous-word/422201/8 "2007-10-10T15:15:02Z")
I’m a trifle besnorkled that people are having such a hard time coming up with additional suggestions. ☹ I thought y’all would be all over this like (as my boss is wont to say) a fat boy on a doughnut. ---
**Author:** ![Bagistan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Bagistan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bagistan)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-frabjous-word/422201/9 "2007-10-10T15:24:06Z")
This is afactilly how scirchled the SDMB sometimes look to me, speaking English as a hemolitious language and all. It’s hachozous at times, but it evengorously embiggens my vocabulary. ---
**Author:** ![Slypork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@Slypork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slypork)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-frabjous-word/422201/10 "2007-10-10T16:02:26Z")
Considering the fantibular vocabulary of the mastitude of people here, I was thinking we’d have a varisified selection of adjectives. I’m desadipointed with everyone. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-frabjous-word/422201/11 "2007-10-10T16:07:44Z")
There does seem to be a scatteronomy of crustigorating adderondies here. ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-frabjous-word/422201/12 "2007-10-10T16:08:24Z")
I feel so squeelie that others use such speciatacular language. **twickster** your cooliosity is not exceeded on these boards. ---
**Author:** ![Risha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@Risha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Risha)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-frabjous-word/422201/13 "2007-10-10T16:27:13Z")
I’m fracking disappointed at the lack of posts in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![AHoosierMama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@AHoosierMama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHoosierMama)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-frabjous-word/422201/14 "2007-10-10T18:42:46Z")
You guys are all so stupilarious! ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-frabjous-word/422201/15 "2007-10-10T18:55:11Z")
Vogons. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-frabjous-word/422201/16 "2007-10-10T21:18:55Z")
Hey! There’s no need to get sourcastic. ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-frabjous-word/422201/17 "2007-10-10T21:33:01Z")
Well there’s always [Unwords.com](http://www.unwords.com). Personally, I am both ambididdlemous and ambiportalous. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-frabjous-word/422201/18 "2007-10-10T21:37:46Z")
Vomitrocious. IIRC, I first remember seeing it in Delia Ephron’s _How to Eat Like a Child_, and have been using it ever since. I’ve heard others using it as well. It’s (obviously) a concatenation of “vomitous” and “atrocious,” and in my humble opinion, it perfectly describes that one particular type of disgustingness. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-frabjous-word/422201/19 "2007-10-10T21:55:00Z")
I’ll reply to this thread right after I return from my visit to the obstecologist. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-frabjous-word/422201/20 "2007-10-10T22:37:41Z")
I’ll reply as soon as I get back from that flubberware party. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-frabjous-word/422201.md?page=2)